East Asia Studies
February 4, 2020
February 3, 2020: Text Analysis
Text analysis and text mining are increasing in popularity in social scientific and humanities scholarship, including in East Asian studies fields. Some workshop participants were already incorporating such methods in their research, either personally or through collaboration with others, while others were interested in learning more. UW eScience Institute Natural Language Processing Specialist Varun Panicker…
January 6, 2020: Data Visualization
Digital scholarship enthusiasts from East Asian studies fields gathered on the first day of the Winter quarter to explore data visualization. UW Libraries’ Data Visualization Librarian Negeen Aghassibake provided a stimulating overview of the purposes, uses, types, production cycle, and best practices of data viz, all rich with examples related to East Asia. She also…
November 25, 2019
November 4, 2019: Open Education and Open Access
The second of our Autumn quarter workshops explored two forms of “open” publishing, both aimed at broadening access to scholarly literature: Open Access and Open Educational Resources. Open Access is an emergent form of scholarly publishing that aims to make cutting edge research literature—today often locked behind expensive pay walls—freely available to readers. UW Libraries…
