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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

Digital humanities tools such as databases and digitization have offered new insights into the histories of enslaved people. These digital archives raise crucial questions about the use and access of data, the representation of race and lived experiences in databases, and the power of these tools in humanizing and dehumanizing historical narratives. This talk will explore how digital humanities can increase access to stories forgotten in the archive and the issues in replicating violent and exclusionary documents in digital form.

Optimizing spirits distribution in Bangkok with data-driven marketing analytics
Spirits, or “hard liquor”, is a 500 billion USD industry globally and a 20 billion USD industry in Thailand, comprising almost 4% of total GDP there. The premium spirits market is a global oligopoly dominated by 3 major brand owners: Diageo (Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, others), Pernod Ricard (Chivas, Absolut, others), and Bacardi (Bacardi rum, Dewars, Grey Goose, others) which together command 50% global market share.

Join Rebekah Irwin, Curator and Director of Special Collections & Archives, for an exhibit tour featuring the tiniest of books, ranging from handwritten religious texts to cookbooks, children’s books, and Shakespeare, ranging in size between 1.8 and 10 cm tall. Souvenir postcards and lapel buttons while they last! Meet in the atrium of the Davis Family Library.

This event repeats at 4:00pm, same day.