On June 8th and 9th, the UO Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center Graduate Affiliates will host three workshops for graduate students interested in incorporating digital methods into their research. On June 8th, Adam Turner, doctoral candidate in the History department, will help students learn to manage their workflow using Pandoc and Markdown. On June 9th, Matthew Hannah, doctoral candidate in the English department, will introduce students to social network analysis and Laura Strait, doctoral student in the School of Journalism and Communication, will teach students how to research using Twitter.

All workshops are free, but registration is required. To register, please email Patrick Jones at patrickj@uoregon.edu. The full schedule of workshops follows below.

Digital Scholarship Workshops Schedule:

Monday, June 8
Write For Your Future Self: Getting Started with Plain Text
Adam Turner (History)
3:00-4:00PM, Digital Scholarship Ctr Conference Room (142 Knight Library)

It’s easy to get stuck in the world of Word, fighting with it over footnotes and spending hours fixing formatting. But there’s another way: In this introductory workshop, you’ll learn the basics of writing ​Markdown​ (an easy to read and write plain text format) and using ​Pandoc​ to convert that plain text into beautifully formatted documents in many formats: PDF, DOCX, HTML, LaTex, presentations, and more. Plain text is fast, flexible, system agnostic, and free. C​ ome learn more about plain text and how it can benefit your workflow for all kinds of research and writing projects.

Tuesday, June 9
Social Network Analysis with Palladio
Matthew Hannah (English)
12:00-1:00PM, Digital Scholarship Ctr Conference Room (142 Knight Library)

Have you ever wanted to create social network visualizations but didn’t know how? In this workshop, Matthew Hannah, a PhD Candidate whose dissertation “Networks of Modernism” applies social network analysis to literature, will cover the basics of ​Palladio​, a free web-based network program. ​You will learn both the key terms of network analysis and begin to apply network analysis​. In addition, you will be provided with a spreadsheet to manipulate but will also learn how to create your own.

Twitter Research Methods
Laura Strait (Media Studies)
3:00-4:00PM, Digital Scholarship Ctr Conference Room (142 Knight Library)