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Catching up on iSchool news from before and after the Thanksgiving holiday:
iSchoolers in the News
Rolf Hapel, the iSchool’s Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, recently presented at the annual OCLC conference about his experiences at Dokk1, an acclaimed library and cultural center in Aarhus, Denmark. The organization recently posted his talk to YouTube:
Seattle’s PitchBook is among the companies that have benefited from sponsoring iSchool Capstone projects. We talked to recent MSIM graduates Anna Huang, Qianru (Sheryl) Wang and Arunabh Satpathy about Capstone projects that partnered them with the company.
Top Tweets
Not bad for a day's (and night's) work! Congratulations to MSIM students Proshonjit Mitra, Varun Panicker, Bhagyashri Nivdunge and Pratik Mulchandani for taking honors at the T-Mobile "Hacksgiving" Hackathon. pic.twitter.com/2wTrOUHtbH
— UW iSchool (@UW_iSchool) November 20, 2018
Check out this "Ask an Alumn" Q&A that the UW Career & Internship Center put together with MSIM graduate Sarah Squire from 2012! #ischoolcareers #uwischool #MSIM https://t.co/1TmybUXl7l
— iStudent Services (@uwioss) November 20, 2018
Two Thanksgivings! Twice the turkey, twice the parades, twice the football? Nope, but for a few years the nation was split by a presidential proclamation that didn’t quite work as intended #Thanksgiving #Franksgiving, https://t.co/VrvArNuBp1
— Joe Janes (@joejanes) November 21, 2018
I've been interviewing @UW_iSchool MSIM students for a Capstone opp & have been impressed by their level of prep, depth of questions, & experience – super excited to have them working on the project! https://t.co/g7SvGXWDzZ
— Chris Jowaisas (@cjowaisas) November 21, 2018
Couldn't resist the pun! https://t.co/O2qhf4XadH
— Andy J. Ko (@andyjko) November 26, 2018
This looks incredible. I’m hoping to visit this weekend. https://t.co/FQTsWuPQXF
— danielarosner (@danielarosner) November 27, 2018
No book could be more tragically timely than Meg Finn’s wonderful deep dive into information in the aftermath of historical California disasters. Read an excerpt here. https://t.co/z8KQG2V2JQ
— Nancy Baym (@nancybaym) November 15, 2018
I know our current @UW_iSchool #MLIS students can come up with terrific submissions for alum @violetbfox and her #LISmentalhealth zine: https://t.co/cAE67AqGWM
— Helene Williams (@bibliorogue) November 28, 2018
Our book is *officially* out! We wrote Programming Skills for Data Science to teach the foundational coding skills necessary to start wrangling, analyzing, and visualizing data in R. Check it out #rstats #datascience #dataviz folks! cc @joelwross.https://t.co/FKj6TFmlwI
— Mike Freeman (@mf_viz) November 29, 2018
