Name: Become a Data Therapist: Developing a Data Culture in Your Library
Start: 2018-10-12T10:30:00-0500
End: 2018-10-12T11:20:00-0500

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Become a Data Therapist: Developing a Data Culture in Your Library

We will share how Saint Paul Public Library has utilized data tools, activities, and workshops to build a data literate culture in our library and community. We partnered with the MIT Media Lab's Center for Civic Media to bring a series of "Data Therapy" workshops to Saint Paul, based on the work of researchers Rahul Bhargava (MIT) and Catherine D'ignazio (Emerson). During this session, we will practice MIT's Databasic.io tools for using data to ask good questions, find stories, and share them with stakeholders.

Speakers

Amanda Feist

Librarian for the Nicholson Workforce and Innovation Center, Saint Paul Public Library

I manage the Nicholson Workforce and Innovation Center at downtown Saint Paul's George Latimer Central Library, which means I am responsible for this library's services to jobseekers, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals in an urban area. I also manage our Innovation Lab, a makerspace... Read More →