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- Date:
- 2016-02-05
- Main contributors:
- Brodnax, NaLette
- Summary:
- Web scraping is a method of extracting and restructuring information from web pages. This workshop will introduce basic techniques for web scraping using popular open-source tools. The first part of the workshop will provide an overview of basic HTML elements and Python tools for developing a custom web scraper. The second part will enable participants to practice accessing websites, parsing information, and storing data in a CSV file. This workshop is intended for social scientists who are new to web scraping. No programming experience is required, but basic familiarity with HTML and Python is helpful. NaLette Brodnax is a data scientist and fourth-year doctoral student in the Joint Public Policy program administered by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science at Indiana University. Her research interests include education policy, policy analysis and program evaluation, and quantitative research methodology. As a graduate assistant for the Center of Excellence for Women in Technology, she is working on a number of projects intended to expose women to technology and to support women using technology in their studies and careers. Prior to entering the doctoral program, NaLette spent nine years in corporate finance roles, managing large data sets and developing financial models for large companies such as Abbott Laboratories and Nokia. She holds a BSBA from The Ohio State University with a concentration in Finance and a Master's in Public Policy from Loyola University Chicago.
- Date:
- 2016-09-30
- Main contributors:
- Brodnax, NaLette
- Summary:
- Web scraping is a method of extracting and restructuring information from web pages. This workshop will introduce basic techniques for web scraping using the popular Python libraries BeautifulSoup and Requests. Participants will practice accessing websites, parsing information, and storing data in a CSV file. This workshop is intended for social scientists who are new to web scraping but have some familiarity with Python or have attended the Intro to Python workshop.
- Date:
- 2016
- Main contributors:
- Brownlee, Bonnie Jeanne
- Summary:
- Bonnie Brownlee, a long-time educator with an interest in international communication, dedicated 34 years to IU and the former School of Journalism as a teacher, researcher and administrator. She retired in 2015 as chair of The Media School’s journalism department. Brownlee began her IU career as a journalism student in the late 1960s. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1972 with bachelor’s degrees in English and journalism. Her first full-time job was with a Boston startup that produced the natural sweetener Miracle Fruit. Brownlee’s work cemented her interest in diet and nutrition. She returned to IU for her master’s degree in journalism, with the idea of becoming a reporter specializing in health. While earning her master’s degree, she participated in a three-month health project in eastern Nicaragua, where she documented the nutritional status of young Miskito Indian children. After graduation, Brownlee was working as editor of an in-house publication for Marathon Oil when she was invited to manage a radio station in Nicaragua as part of a U.S. Agency for International Development project. The experience formed the basis of her dissertation for her Ph.D. in mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brownlee was hired as a lecturer in the former School of Journalism at IU in 1981 and advanced through assistant professor, associate professor, associate dean and senior associate dean roles. In 1987, she was the first recipient of the school-wide Gretchen Kemp Teaching Award. As an associate professor, Brownlee taught courses on news and magazine editing, ethics and international communication. She helped develop travel courses, including Media in Latin America, which she taught. She managed a U.S. State Department–U.S. Embassy Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program that twice brought Iraqi students to Bloomington. In her time at IU, Brownlee was active in faculty development and governance. She served as chair of the Bloomington Faculty Grievance Committee and was a member of the Faculty Board of Review, the Athletics Committee, the Bloomington Faculty Council and the Overseas Study Advisory Committee. Brownlee held several positions for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, including head of the international division and member of the teaching and strategic planning committees. She has served on more than a dozen accrediting site teams, a role she maintains, traveling the country to evaluate journalism programs applying for accreditation through the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She also was a member of site teams in the United Arab Emirates in 2003 and 2005. During the transition from the School of Journalism to The Media School, Brownlee led the school’s reaccreditation effort for the journalism program, which was approved unanimously by ACEJMC. The program has been accredited since 1948, the first year accreditation was granted. Brownlee’s efforts ensured it will maintain its accreditation through 2020.
- Date:
- 2016-02-28
- Main contributors:
- Buchman, Jeffrey, Illera, Patricia, Shanahan, James
- Summary:
- Media School Dean Jim Shanahan interviews Jeffrey Buchman, stage director for the IU Jacobs School of Music’s upcoming production of “Carmen,” and Jacobs graduate student Patricia Illera, who will perform the opera’s title role.
- Date:
- 2016-10-24
- Main contributors:
- Burnim, Mellonee V. (Mellonee Victoria), 1950-, Pollard, Deborah Smith, Jones, Alisha Lola, Cooper, Tyron
- Summary:
- As part of the 2016 Themester Beauty, the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) hosted a presentation and panel discussion event in the Grand Hall of the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center. Comprised of IUB faculty members from the departments of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and African American and African Diaspora Studies, as well as a distinguished scholar and guest speaker Deborah Smith Pollard from Michigan State University, the panel explored concepts of beauty in music from two distinct, though related perspectives. Representations of gendered body images, male and female, served as one area of focus, while the second topic explored the body of aesthetic values which distinguish African American performance in ways which not only contrast, but often contradict those preferred by the larger American public.
- Date:
- 2016-11-02
- Main contributors:
- Cameron, Jon
- Summary:
- As the need to manage and provide access to collections of digital content grows, the ecosystem of software solutions designed to meet these needs has greatly expanded. Into this pool of software comes Avalon, but what exactly does it do, and do differently, from applications like Sufia or Islandora? Developed in partnership with Northwestern University, the Avalon Media System is an open source system for managing and providing access to large collections of digital audio and video. Used for library services such as Media Collections Online and projects such as IU's Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Avalon is an application that provides a robust set of features related to media access and streaming. Come learn how Avalon's focus on web-based access to audio and video materials is developed to meet the needs of both consumers and stewards of digital collections, as well as the unique role it plays in the world of digital repository software.
- Date:
- 2016-11-14
- Main contributors:
- Carbonell, Isabelle, Chevrier, Joelle
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2016-01-08
- Main contributors:
- Carl and Gerald Huber (Masters), Jon Kay (Director), Traditional Arts Indiana
- Summary:
- Since 1843, the Huber family has worked a small homestead located in the Knobs of Clark County, Indiana. Originally from Baden Baden, Germany, the family brought a fruit-growing and winemaking tradition with them to Southeastern Indiana. Like many of their neighbors, generations of Hubers have made a couple of barrels of wine each year for their own table. Winemaking was not a commercial venture until 1972, when Indiana passed the Small Farm Winery Act. Since the Huber family operated a fruit-based farm and had made wine as far back as they could trace their history, they decided to transform their retail fruit farm into the Huber Orchard and Winery. Knowing that amateur winemaking was different from running a commercial winemaking operation, brothers Carl and Gerald Huber researched the business and trained themselves for their new agricultural venture. In 1979, they produced their first wine for sale. Gerald began competing and winning the Governor's Cup at the Indiana State Fair's International Wine Competition, which is the third largest competition of its kind in the United States. The competition helped the Hubers improve and develop their winemaking tradition and secure their reputation as a premier Indiana winery. Gerald's son, Ted, began working in the vineyard as a young boy and in the winery as a teenager. At 21, he became the Huber Winery's head winemaker, after his father and uncle transferred the family business to Ted and his cousin Greg. Today, Ted oversees the winery and vineyard on the six-generation farm, while Greg manages the orchard and retail operations, which attract 550,000 visitors each year.
- Date:
- 2016-10
- Main contributors:
- Carolyn Dinshaw
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2016-05-15
- Main contributors:
- Carter, Sue, Allen, Colin, Shanahan, James
- Summary:
- This week, host Jim Shanahan is joined by Sue Carter, the director of The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. Carter was appointed to her position at The Kinsey Institute in October, 2014, after a long career in the field of neuroendocrinology. Carter has spent much of her recent career studying the consequences of birth intervention, particularly how the hormone oxytocin affects the health of both mothers and their newborn children. In this interview, Carter will discuss her career, including research on the mating habits of the prairie vole, the present and historical challenges of sex research and the immediate future of The Kinsey Institute. Also on this episode, Colin Allen, a faculty member in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine in the College of Arts and Sciences, talks about National Bike to Work Week, from May 16 to 20. May is National Bike Month.
- Date:
- 2016-09-21
- Main contributors:
- Casey, Michael, Dapuzzo, Andrew
- Summary:
- Audiovisual archivists agree that media holdings must be transferred to the digital domain as soon as possible in order to survive. Because this work requires significant resources, it must be conducted as efficiently as possible. One place to realize efficiencies is in the management of the digitization process. This presentation will explore managing effective and efficient 1:1 as well as parallel transfer media digitization workflows. Using the Indiana University Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative project as a case study, Mike Casey will discuss applying the theory of constraints and adapting software development methodologies to efficiently manage 1:1 digitization workflows. This will include a look at working with bottlenecks, scrum methodology, and the daily standup. Andrew Dapuzzo from Memnon Archiving Services will address issues in regulating parallel transfer workflows including the role of workflow management software, the importance of both human and machine quality assurance in each step of the process, the difficulty in maintaining obsolete machines, overall system design and Total Quality Management. The more efficient the digitization workflow, the more we are able to preserve with scarce resources.
- Date:
- 2016-09-04
- Main contributors:
- Caton, keith, Hojnicki, Caryn, Cummings, Janae, Shanahan, James
- Summary:
- With the IU football season well underway, someone has to help the Hoosiers stay in top shape. That person is Keith Caton, the strength and conditioning coach for the IU football team. Caton's coaching career includes stops at the University of Southern Mississippi, Auburn University, the University of Missouri, Western Kentucky University and Baylor University. This week on Through the Gates, host Jim Shanahan will discuss IU's training methods with Caton, as well as his role in helping athletes sustain their athletic performance. We'll also hear from Caryn Hojnicki, sustainability coordinator with Greening Cream & Crimson, an initiative designed to bring more sustainable practices to IU athletics. She'll share her work on the Zero Waste Football project with Janae Cummings in this week's Five Questions segment.
- Date:
- 2016-11-30
- Main contributors:
- Cline, Nicholae, Nay, Leanne
- Summary:
- The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) provides research support for the growing corpus of over fourteen million volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) through a suite of tools for text analysis. This session will introduce attendees to the research services developed by the HTRC. Nicholae Cline and Leanne Nay will also demonstrate HathiTrust+Bookworm and the HTRC Portal, two web-based tools that are ideal for introducing students and scholars to text analysis.
- Date:
- 2016-08-28
- Main contributors:
- Comentale, Ed, Matejka, Adrian, Prelinger, Rick, Cummings, Janae, Shanahan, James
- Summary:
- This week, Through the Gates hosts Jim Shanahan and Janae Cummings talk with Ed Comentale, associate vice provost for arts and humanities in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, and Arts and Humanities Council intern Lucy Battersby, an undergraduate studying history and creative writing in the College of Arts and Sciences. Ed and Lucy share updates from the council and talk about First Thursdays, a celebration of contemporary arts & humanities on the IU Bloomington campus debuting Sept. 1 at 5 p.m. The festival is free and open to all members of the public, with performances and activities around the Showalter Arts Plaza from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., followed by featured evening events at venues across campus. Janae Cummings also talks with IU award-winning poet Adrian Matejka, who has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and who is kicking off the inaugural First Thursdays event Sept. 1, and documentarian Rick Prelinger, whose film “No More Road Trips?” will be shown during the event at 6:30 p.m. in the IU Cinema
- Date:
- 2016-10-05
- Main contributors:
- Craig, Kalani, Diaz, Arlene
- Summary:
- In 1897-1898 secret agents from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency were following American war correspondents in Havana, Cuba. These agents were all Americans yet they all seemingly had a common employer: the Spanish diplomatic minister in the United States. The mission of the operatives that were sent to Cuba was to inform, as well as to sabotage, the journalist work of these correspondents who kept feeding the animosity of American public opinion against Spain. They also sought to identify other spies who were helping the Cubans as well as the Americans. In this mÌ©lange of (private) espionage and (public) published stories, who were the ‰Û÷real' spies and for whom did they really work for? According to the detective reports, what was going on and what stories were being told about the war in Cuba by these American journalists? This brown bag presentation will discuss what we have learned so far from this research as well as how the tools provided by digital humanities were used to uncover spies, the crafting of narratives, and the relationships among them through time.
- Date:
- 2016-11-03
- Main contributors:
- Crandall, David
- Summary:
- Over 2 billion people now own smartphones, which are actually sophisticated mobile computing devices that can run applications, take photos, access the internet, and collect GPS, motion, and other sensor data. Many people use these devices to access online social media sites, which have also exploded in popularity over the last few years. For example, *each day* over 1 billion people log in to Facebook, and collectively upload about 350 million photos and share nearly 5 billion status updates and other pieces of content. As people use their digital devices and services, they are (without necessarily realizing it) leaving behind "digital footprints" about themselves and their behavior, including the things they "like", the people they communicate with, the places they visit, the photos they take, and so on. This is creating huge datasets about the world and human behavior, that could potentially be used to aid studies in a range of scientific disciplines. In this talk, I'll give a high-level overview of some of our recent work that has used mobile devices and online social media to collaborate with studies in sociology, psychology, and ecology. I'll talk about some of the advantages and disadvantages of this type of analysis, including the many sources of potential bias, and very real concerns about privacy.
- Date:
- 2016-04-20
- Main contributors:
- Dalmau, Michelle, Homenda, Nick
- Summary:
- The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries' Digital Collections Services department has offered Digital Project Planning consultation services twice a week since the opening of the Scholars' Commons in September 2014. Data collected from these consultation sessions provides insight into the individuals engaged in digital scholarship projects and initiatives at Indiana University. Building upon analysis performed by Meridith Beck Sayre, Council on Library and Information Resources Data Curation Postdoctoral Fellow for Data Curation in the Humanities, Dalmau and Homenda will provide an overview of emerging digital project planning and data curation trends and needs demonstrated by Indiana University Bloomington faculty, students and staff as well as recommendations for ongoing support of digital scholarship projects and initiatives on the Bloomington campus and beyond.
- Date:
- 2017-03
- Main contributors:
- Dan Ben-Amos
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2016
- Main contributors:
- Deggans, Eric
- Summary:
- Eric Deggans is a TV critic, journalist, political commentator and author known for his insightful reviews on NPR and for his hard-hitting criticisms of race relations in the media. Deggans was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Gary, Indiana. In his time at IU, he worked as a professional drummer and toured with The Voyage Band before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in political science and journalism in 1990. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Press. Deggans helped create a minority affairs reporting position at the Gazette and worked with the Pennsylvania State Troopers Academy to develop a racial sensitivity training program for new recruits. In 1993, Deggans became a music critic for Asbury Park Press newspaper in Neptune, New Jersey, before joining the Tampa Bay Times, formerly the St. Petersburg Times, as a pop music critic in 1995. He began covering events such as the MTV Video Music Awards, and later wrote reviews and news stories on television and trends in media. After working as a TV critic for the Times from 1997 until 2004, Deggans joined the editorial board of the paper, writing opinion columns. In 2005, he returned to the news desk as media critic and then media and TV critic. Since 2013, Deggans has served as NPR’s first full-time TV critic. He offers commentary on everything from politics to TV reviews to examinations of the entertainment industry. Deggans’ book, Race Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation, describes how some media outlets and personalities profit by evoking and perpetuating stereotypes, prejudice and racism. Deggans also has written for The New York Times online, Salon magazine, CNN.com, The Washington Post, Emmy magazine and Rolling Stone online, among many others. He has appeared as a commentator or guest host on several news and news analysis shows, such as CNN’s Reliable Sources and PBS NewsHour. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his writing and for his coverage of issues related to race and media, including the Florida Press Club’s first ever Diversity Award and the National Association of Black Journalists’ A & E Task Force Legacy Award. Deggans has taught and lectured at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Loyola University, California State University, the University of Tampa and Indiana University. He continues to return to campus to participate in Media School events, including the school’s Speaker Series.