Digital Matters Workshop: Introduction to Web Scraping

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Interested in automatically pulling data from a web site instead of manually cutting and pasting?  Are you a historian interested in census data?  Are you a communication scholar interested in pulling key words from presidential speeches and inserting them into a structured database?  Learn how...

Lecture – Modeling Narrative Intelligence to Support Adaptive Virtual Environments (Rogelio Cardona-Rivera, Asst. Prof., School of Computing & the Entertainment Arts & Engineering Program)

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Interactive narratives are used for an ever-expanding array of purposes: educational lessons, training simulations, and even organizational behaviors have had narratives woven around them because these are made more compelling in a dramatic framing. Despite their ubiquity, they remain time-consuming, expensive, and technically challenging to...

Workshop – Finding the Art in Grant Writing and Becoming a Grant-Funded Scholar (Prof. Jared R. Rawlings, Associate Professor, Music Education Area Head)

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Increasingly, early career arts researchers and practitioners are expected to secure grant funding for their scholarship. The funding landscape is quite competitive and can be challenging to navigate. Without specific training from a mentor, it can be difficult to understand the numerous funding agencies and...