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Featured Project: Excel Tutorials
The META Lab at the Middlebury Institute in Monterey is piloting instructional modules that provide free, asynchronous, online demonstrations of how to use Microsoft Excel for a wide variety of tasks. The modules are being expanded and can support custom pages for interested faculty, programs, groups, or initiatives that have a need for Excel use or training.
Building a Post-War U.S. State-Level Unemployment Dataset
Midd.data welcomed David Munro (Economics) for this year’s first Lightning Talk on Wednesday, 9/21 on creating a new unemployment dataset, one of our best economic indicators.
Decolonial Pedagogy: African Music and Dance Performance in the American Academy
Lightning Talk by Damascus Kafumbe, Associate Professor of Music, on Towards a Decolonial Pedagogy: African Music and Dance Performance in the American Academy.
Pandemic Layoffs
Learn how Economics Professor Erin Wolcott and her students mined unemployment data to better understand the impact of the pandemic on employment trends.
Data Analytics at The Center for the Blue Economy
The Center for the Blue Economy’s Tony Castelletto describes how the Center for the Blue Economy uses data to conduct translational work in environmental economics.
Million Dollar Hoods
Lightning Talk by Kelly Lytle Hernández on Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Cost of Mass Incarceration, an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture.
Linguistic Development during Study Abroad
Lightning Talk by Hang Du, Professor of Chinese, on Linguistic Development during Study Abroad: Research on a corpus of spoken learner Chinese.
Critical Language Awareness Pedagogy
Lightning Talk by Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, on Building a Community of Practice around Critical Language Awareness Pedagogy.