Penn's 2019-202 Theme Year is all about data. These slides are all about gathering ideas from the community to spotlight related resources (human, digital, material) and developing programming for the year. Hope you can join us! Learn more at https://www.nso.upenn.edu/theme-year/theme-year-2019-year-data

1. Brainstorm Session

2. Welcome
• Overview of YoD
• 10-min videos
Quick Conversations
• Worth Further Investigation:
Learn Together
• Out of Our Minds:
Exists in the World
• Next Steps

3. NSO & Penn Reading Project
Theme Year
a shared intellectual
experience for the entire
Penn community, with
programming developed
centrally & in individual
Schools & centers.

4. From the proposal
Penn students will need
to understand how data
is created, collected,
shared, accessed,
visualized, monetized,
leveraged, and effectively
communicated.
Draw upon & highlight experts, collections, services, facilities, resources
Interdisciplinary

5. https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw https://youtu.be/l1gsmI9AwCw
7:47 min 2:58 min

6. What themes emerged?
What questions did videos raise?
What data-related knowledge
& skills were implied or
identified?

7. Out of Our Minds
What exists in the world
today?
• 1 person to “drive” the computer
• 1 person to keep time
• Generate as many ideas as possible
• You have 10 minutes

8. What would you like to
see happen next?

9. Thank you!
• Overview of YoD
• Key themes, questions, skills
• Exists in the World
• Next Steps
Kim Eke, Ph.D.
kimeke@upenn.edu
Assoc. Univ. Librarian
for Teaching, Research & Learning Services
University of Pennsylvania
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