Learning Materials

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on using Gephi for network analysis and visualization.

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on NVivo 12 for Mac.

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on using the R statistical programming language.

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on Stata.

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on NVivo 14/15 for Mac.

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on NVivo 14/15 for Windows.

This page provides a video recording of a workshop on various text analysis tools.

Please note that Constellate is ending on July 1st, 2025. Some learning materials will remain available afterwards.

Please also note that HathiTrust Research Center will no longer be funded by the end of 2026.

This page provides a video recording of a workshop on OpenRefine.

This page provides access to a Data Visualization self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on data viz theory and provides opportunities to practice critiquing visualizations. 

This page provides access to a Data Visualization self-paced online Quercus course that introduces participants to Tableau Desktop. Participants will learn to create visualizations using some example datasets.

This page provides access to an Infographics self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on best practices for creating infographics.

This page provides access to a self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on how to use R for exploring and manipulating data.

This page provides access to a self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on using R for intermediate level data manipulation and visualization, and programming flow control.

This page provides access to a self-paced online Quercus course that focuses on data cleaning using OpenRefine.

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on ArcGIS Pro.

This page provides a video recording of a workshop in ArcGIS Pro focusing on spatial analysis.

This page provides a video recording of a workshop on ArcGIS Pro that focuses on loading and manipulating data.

This page provides a video recording of an introductory workshop on Constellate.

Please note that Constellate is ending on July 1st, 2025. Some learning materials will remain available afterwards.

This page provides a video recording of a introductory workshop on NVivo 12 for Windows.

This tutorial is a beginner friendly introduction to work with GIS data using R. The topics covered are creating and importing GIS data including point, line, and polygon features; making maps; and running common spatial analyses. The main spatial package used is the sf package.

This tutorial is for installing and licensing NVivo 15 on Windows computers. 

Find information on how to request a license, download and install the software, as well as how to activate the license key for new and existing users.

Note: If you need NVivo 14, please reach out to us using our contact form

Site research involves the comprehensive analysis of a location's physical, cultural, and environmental characteristics. This process encompasses assessing topography, climate, zoning regulations, and existing infrastructure, as well as understanding the historical and social context of the site. Other terms often used interchangeably with site research include site analysis, site assessment, and contextual analysis.

Shiny is a powerful open-source tool that is used to build easy interactive web applications. This guide will help users get started in creating R Shiny applications.