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The terminal and the command-line are gateways to robust and efficient computing tasks. The Unix shell is often at their core and has been around longer than most of its users have been alive. It has survived because it’s a powerful tool that allows users to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just a few keystrokes or lines of code. It helps users automate repetitive tasks and easily combine smaller tasks into larger, more powerful workflows. Use of the shell is fundamental to a wide range of advanced computing tasks, including high-performance computing.

The Organizing and Managing Research Data workshop will focus on research data management: what it is, why it’s an important skill, and how it contributes to successful research. Whether you work alone or collaborate with other researchers, it is essential to organize, describe, and document your data and research processes effectively. You can free up mental energy for actually doing research, encourage reproducible research, and make your research team’s collaboration more efficient.

The terminal and the command-line are gateways to robust and efficient computing tasks. The Unix shell is often at their core and has been around longer than most of its users have been alive. It has survived because it’s a powerful tool that allows users to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just a few keystrokes or lines of code. It helps users automate repetitive tasks and easily combine smaller tasks into larger, more powerful workflows. Use of the shell is fundamental to a wide range of advanced computing tasks, including high-performance computing.

SGA Innovation and Tech committee are hosting a hybrid workshop for students to learn about Excel/google-sheets, and how to use, interpret and edit data.

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Presenter: Dr. Dr. Damascus Kafumbe, Associate Professor of Music

We assemble a dataset of high-frequency state-level layoff data from the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. In the early days of the pandemic, we used this data to document layoffs in the United States were predominantly temporary. In recent work, we study the effect of local stay-at-home orders in March-April 2020 on mass layoffs.

Coauthor: Marianna Kudlyak (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Research Assistants: Lachlan Pinney ’21.5 and Claire Moy ’22

Speaker: Anthony Castelletto, Research Associate for the Center for the Blue Economy, Middlebury Institute

A presentation by Anthony Castelletto on how the Center for the Blue Economy uses data to conduct translational work in environmental economics. We translate geophysical data into economic consequences to guide leaders on how to cope with the ocean and coastal effects of climate change. We do the same to promote sustainable development of ocean resources.

Speaker: Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Linguistics

The Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods (midd.data) is pleased to present “Liberal Arts for an Information Age”, a fireside chat with Eric Schmidt, Co-founder, Schmidt Futures, who served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman from 2001 to 2011, Executive Chairman from 2011 to 2018, and most recently as Technical Advisor. The chat will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, from 7:00-8:00 PM Eastern.

The Writing Center—in partnership with Wellness and Scott Centers and Libraries—welcomes you to a writing event to process the pandemic. Hosted by peer writing tutors, this event is designed to process painful memories, to support healing, and to create art. No prior experience with personal or reflective writing necessary! To register and learn more visit Go/WC