GSBS: Making the Most of your Time at Home

Practice a new skill that can help you excel: the following online education sites offer courses in programming, statistics, data science, and more.

Ed-X - This site includes courses from MIT, Harvard, and UC Berkeley on a variety of topics.

Coursera - Take classes from Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and Imperial College London. Coursera includes Matlab courses through Mathworks!

Codecademy - Learn to code for free! Codecademy offers courses on Python and R, as well as many other programming languages.

Learn how to tell your data story visually by checking out some of these blogs and sites, as well as the Lamar Soutter Library's guide on Data Visualization!

• Data Viz Today Podcast

  by Alli Torban
• Flowing Data

  by Nathan Yau
• Information is Beautiful

  by David McCandless
• Multiple Views: Visualization Research Explained
• Policy Viz podcast

  by Jonathan Shwabish
• Stephanie Evergreen's blog
• Storytelling with Data

  by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic- website, blog, and podcast!     

                                                                                                                               

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There is an art to reading a research paper, one that is not always clearly taught in graduate school. Here are some resources to help you improve your research reading skills! 

• From Rice University, How to Read a Scientific Article
• From Towards Data Science, Guide to Reading Academic Research Papers
• From Adam Ruben in Science Magazine, How to read a scientific paper
• In response, from Science Magazine, How to (seriously) read a scientific paper
• From the London School of Economics blog, How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists

Having trouble accessing journal articles? Check out our guide for off-campus access. 

Graduate school is a completely different experience from the undergraduate years, and it can be a hard adjustment to make. That adjustment can be confusing and stressful (and not just in the early years!). While there are many, many guides to surviving graduate school to be found on the internet, here are a few that focus more on how to be successful while also surviving and thriving!

The older, but classic, "So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!" by Ronald T. Azuma

From Nature, Twenty things I wish I'd known when I started my PhD, by Lucy A. Taylor      

Finally, some Modest Advice, from Stephen C. Stearns  

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