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Three hot air balloons hovering above water. Text reads "2022. Capentry Con."

CarpentryCon2022 Lightning Talk: Pre-Workshop Team Meetups: How to Set Up for Success

September 14, 2022 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

My lightning talk for CarpentryCon2022 is now available on YouTube (closed captions in English, French, Japanese, and Spanish): https://youtu.be/DQ3PfJrgo0Y Abstract:One essential pre-workshop checklist item involves organizing “a meetup with the instructors the day before the […]

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Centering a BIPOC Library Workforce

March 14, 2022 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Ben Chiewphasa

Excited to share with you all an autoethnographic piece I wrote with my dear friend Janis J. Shearer; we’re both proud alums of the ARL Kaleidoscope Program. Read the full article in the “Anti-Racist Action […]

Image shows a rainfall map of Eurasia. Available text states the following: "From sunflower oil to titanium, how the world will feel the costs of the Ukraine conflict."

Eurasian Rainfall Map Featured in the Washington Post

March 11, 2022 Data Visualization by Ben Chiewphasa

A Eurasian rainfall map I created was featured in a Washington Post story by Lee Powell (and YouTube video) discussing economic fallout and the wheat supply chain. The map was initially the outcome of a […]

Love Data Week. February fourteenth thru eighteenth. 2022.

Love Data Week 2022

February 24, 2022 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

Over 100 students, faculty, and staff from across the Notre Dame campus took part in this year’s Love Data Week celebration with the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship. Session materials (slides and/or recordings) for […]

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Data Literacy, Community Engagement, and Librarianship

November 26, 2021 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

I had the pleasure of being a guest contributor for Service Learning Librarian, a discussion hub focused on service-learning and its connections to libraries, librarians, and information literacy. Check out my piece that discusses Asset-Based […]

Image depicts Ben Chew-pah-sah leading a workshop on the R programming language. He stands in front of an audience of approximately 20 learners. He looks at the projection screen. The twenty learners all have laptops in front of them.

Online Carpentries Workshops

November 25, 2021 Data Literacy by Ben Chiewphasa

Abstract Objectives: As certified Carpentries instructors, the authors organized and co-taught the University of Montana’s first in-person Carpentries workshop focused on the R programming language during early 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a repeated […]