Week 1 September 26 In week 1 of our Python Open lab, we introduced the Python Starter Kit and went over Python basics such as expressions, variables and statements, floats, statements, integers, strings, booleans, and control flow statements. The class was a mix of students with little to no experience with Python, to a few […]
R Open Lab Materials
For better reproducibility and accessibility, I created a GitHub repository (https://github.com/yuejin123/ROpenLab) to put the instruction materials I used for all the R Open Lab session in the past academic year. Again, thank you to all who came to the R Open Lab. ☀️Enjoy the summer!☀️ […]
Let there be light!
Winnie Xuan Zhu, ’17GSAS, captured the stacks of Lehman Library in a photo she titled “Let There Be Light,”offering her thanks to Lehman staff. “Recalling the past year, most of the time I spent was in Lehman, which was so unforgettable. [I’d like to] say thanks for all your work and the great environment in […]
Expansion of Borrow Direct Loan Period
We heard you! The expanded 16-week loan period for materials requested via Borrow Direct begins July 1, 2017. The new loan period will be 16 weeks – a full semester – with no renewals. This is a change from our current 6-week loan period plus one 6-week renewal. Thank you for your feedback. You help to make a great service even […]
New Additions to the Collection, May 22, 2017
The following titles were recently added or updated. CU Numeric Data Catalog Holdings New United States Presidential Election Results 1964 United States Presidential Election Results 1968 United States Presidential Election Results 1972 United States Presidential Election Results 1976 United States Presidential Election Results 1980 United States Presidential Election Results 1984 United States Presidential Election Results […]
New Additions to the Collection, May 15, 2017
The following titles were recently added or updated. CU Numeric Data Catalog Holdings New United States Presidential State-Level, All-Time Vote Data, 1824-2012 Recently updated United States Congressional Election Results, 2008-forward (new versions for 2008, 2012, 2014 House; 2012, 2014 Senate) United States Election Results – Governor, 1996 – forward (new versions for 2008, 2012, 2014) United States […]
Sit, relax, unwind…
Take a well-deserved break from your hectic schedules! Stop by any of the following libraries for low-key stress relievers like coloring, back and neck rubs, therapy dogs, and more: Avery Library Tuesday, May 2 through Thursday, May 11, there will be coloring books and jigsaw puzzles available all day on the 200 level of the […]
Python Open Labs
In the penultimate session of Python Open Labs we had a brief review of csv concepts and XML parsing with BeautifulSoup Library. A boiler plate code for practise can be obtained below from the Google Drive link, filed under Session-19 folder. All of the course slides and examples are made available on: https://goo.gl/YP0c2E Next week on […]
Python Open Labs – CSV Files
As we move towards the end of Spring semester, having covered most of the basics in Python, the recent sessions have been focusing on introducing python modules requested by attendees. Last week had a second session on web-scraping with BeautifulSoup, I have updated the practice code for the same in Session-17 folder of the google […]
Python Open Labs – Web Scraping
For those who have been following this blog series, sorry for a late post on the updates about Python Open Labs. Last week we covered some basics about web scraping with python, but before I start let me make a customary disclaimer. Make sure that any of the websites that you want to scrape have granted […]