Love Data Week 2024

A deep dive into how you can make your data visualizations inclusive and accessible.

Do No Harm with Data Visualization (Alice Feng) (Slides)
In today’s increasingly diverse world, data communicators must ensure that the way they analyze and present their data upholds the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and avoids perpetuating stereotypes, biases, or other types of harm. Taking a DEI perspective means considering how the specific lived experiences and perspectives of the people and communities we are studying, as well as our readers, will perceive the way we communicate data and information. This talk will offer a set of starting points on how to apply an equity lens to the way we visualize data, including considerations surrounding the use of language, color, icons and imagery, ordering, and more. Participants should walk away from this talk with an understanding of how to create and evaluate data-driven visuals that embody a DEI approach.

Data Visualizations for Everybody – A Lesson on Accessibility (Nancy Shin) (Slides)
Ever wondered how to make your data visualizations appealing to everybody? Discover and learn the do’s and don’ts of data visualizations as it relates to accessibility. Effective data visualizations should be more than just something “pretty” for the select few; effective visualizations should be functional and accessible to everybody! Learn the basics of accessible data visualizations in this 15-minute talk. No prior knowledge required.

Alice Feng, Visual Journalist, Axios

Nancy Shin, Scholarly Communications Librarian, Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library

• Tom Burns, JD, MBA, Associate Dean for Research Affairs, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Paul Nagy, PhD, FSIIM, Director of Education, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Engineering
• Stuart C. Ray, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Oncology, Vice Chair of Medicine for Data Integrity and Analytics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Megan Kasimatis Singleton, JD, MBE, CIP, Associate Dean for Human Research Protections and Director of the Human Research Protections Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Pete Lawson, Data and Visualization Librarian, Johns Hopkins University Data Services

• Pete Aceves, Assistant Professor, Management and Organization, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
• Netz Arroyo, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• Hunter Gehlbach, Professor of Education, Johns Hopkins University School of Education
• John Muschelli, Associate Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Joshua Vogelstein, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Louis Hyman, Dorothy Ross Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University

• Parker E. Foster, Research Associate, New York University Metro Center, Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation
• Sofia Locklear, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Mississauga
• Lauren Rubin, Director of Development, St. Francis Neighborhood Center

We invite experts from Sheridan Libraries and Welch Medical Library to present how to search and access data in various academic disciplines.

Business Location Data via the Sheridan Libraries (Jim Gillispie)
When we think about places in our local community what often comes to mind are those anchoring businesses where we shop and connect with our neighbors. In studying communities, researchers recognize that business type and location have the potential to add or detract from the vitality of the surrounding area. With the availability of library licensed business location databases, it is now easier than ever to take a closer look at changes in business patterns over time and then visualize that business data in combination with other demographic factors. This presentation will focus on business location sources readily available via the Sheridan Libraries.

Data for Your Business Plan or Pitch (Katy Troeschel)
Want to see if your business idea or invention make sense? Learn where to find the stats that demonstrate your market size and value for your idea. Then we’ll explore tools and templates to help you compile the information you find.

A Brief Introduction to dbGaP: An Archive of Genotype/Phenotype Data from NCBI (Rob Wright)
Using the listing of NIH-supported data repositories as a starting point, I’ll focus on the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP), which is a core repository for human genotype/phenotype studies. I’ll describe dbGaP, quickly work through a searching example, and highlight the contents of a dbGaP record, including the section on requesting controlled-access genomics data.

Jim Gillispie, Social Science Librarian, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
Katy Troeschel, Technology & Entrepreneurship Librarian, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
Rob Wright, Basic Science Informationist, Johns Hopkins University Welch Medical Library

Representatives from three JHU offices to present open scholarship supports they each provide to JHU researchers.

An Overview of Data Services and the Institutional Repository (Chen Chiu) (Slides)
Data Services helps JHU researchers navigate data. We help faculty, researchers, and students find, use, manage, visualize, and share data. In addition, we operate an institutional repository, Johns Hopkins Research Data Repository, that JHU researchers can deposit and share their research data in it. Here, we provide an overview of services that we provide and a brief introduction to how to share data in our institutional repository.

Introducing the Johns Hopkins Open Source Programs Office (Megan Forbes)
In this talk, we’ll delve into the world of Johns Hopkins University’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), a hub for faculty, researchers, students, and staff creating, contributing to, and participating in open source communities. We’ll explore the “why” behind open source – how it fosters transparency, reproducibility, and innovation across disciplines. Then, we’ll discuss the OSPO’s mission and share about the practical services and support we offer, from licensing guidance to help building sustainable communities. Finally, we’ll zoom out to see how the OSPO connects with the library’s broader open science and open access initiatives.

Introduction to the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, SciServer, and the Scientific Software Engineering Center (Gerard Lemson)
An introduction to the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES), its role in accelerating research software development through the Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC), and SciServer, an open collaborative environment for interactive analysis of extremely large datasets .

Chen Chiu, Senior Data Management Consultant, Johns Hopkins University Data Services
Megan Forbes, Program Manager, Open Source Programs Office, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
Gerard Lemson, Director of Science of The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science and Associate Director of the Scientific Software Engineering Center

Alexander S. Szalay, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

How might a computational approach to archival materials help researchers reconstruct hidden histories? These session talks will feature three projects that have synthesized archival materials such as corporate documents and handwritten tables to illuminate suppressed narratives.

Supporting use of computational methods on the Opioid Industry Documents Archive (Kevin S. Hawkins) (Slides)
The OIDA team at JHU is developing the OIDA Toolbox – a set of options for accessing and working with the archive’s growing collection of millions of documents arising from the opioid industry. This presentation will give a brief overview of the OIDA Toolbox and these options.

Teaching with Historical Data (Casey Marina Lurtz)
There’s nothing like a messy handwritten table from 1900 to get people thinking about all the decisions and politics that go into making data. By introducing students to historical data and the processes of transcribing, standardizing, and visualizing it, we can help them understand what’s behind the statistics we so often take as a given.

Underwriting Souls: digitizing corporate archives and humanizing data (Alexandre White)
Underwriting Souls, launched in the fall of 2023 aims to contextualize our understanding of a particular archive of slavery, one centered on the financial systems that formed and maintained the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade until its demise in the British Empire in 1807. It is also meant to serve as a critical means to question and confront the narratives that emerge from relatively unexamined documents. The collections of Lloyd’s, the largest insurance and reinsurance market in the world, are critically important historical materials for understanding the histories of the Atlantic Slave Trade. While this collection details only a small period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, roughly 1794 leading up to the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, these materials still provide a complex picture of the role of Lloyd’s during the height of the slave trade. These materials also provide key insights into the practices of the Lloyd’s market and the process of insuring slaving voyages. Such records are scant and limited and to our knowledge, some of these materials are likely the only of their kind. Furthermore, these materials shed light on the ways that slavery and the slave trade shaped the City of London.

Kevin S. Hawkins, Program Director for the Opioid Industry Documents Archive, Johns Hopkins University
Casey Marina Lurtz, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Alexandre White, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University