The Introduction to Stata workshop is divided in four two-hour sessions and is designed to get you familiar with Stata. During the sessions, we will use datasets with global economic and development indicators. This workshop series is suitable for those who have not worked with Stata before or those seeking a refresher session. It is designed to progressively build knowledge, so it is essential to attend all sessions. By the end of the workshop series, you will be able to perform intermediate data analysis tasks.

Get help starting your research in this workshop designed to help you approach conducting a literature review, determine which databases to use, refine your search strategies, and learn more about access to library resources with tips to use AI to enhance your research workflow.

This online session will train you on how to use Zotero, a free citation management tool that automates the process of citing sources such as books, articles, web pages, and other sources. Zotero can help you organize, tag, and add notes to citations/resources as you conduct your research and search for sources; then integrates with Word to facilitate the creation of footnotes and bibliographies in your selected style.

Suffering from the endless back and forth to craft a workable AI tool prompt?  Frustrated at having to slog through your AI responses and sources cited to determine what is hallucinated or real?  Are you discouraged by the results when using web search engines like Google or Bing as well?  Then come to this workshop to take control of your search of the internet!  Learn how to use Google Advanced Commands to do efficient, focused searches to get directly to quality r

“More successful students are usually very adept at managing their own personal knowledge” (Garner, 2010). But what is personal knowledge management (PKM) and what are its components? In this workshop we will review some PKM principles, review various information management tools freely available to Tufts students and share practical techniques you can apply to become a more efficient and effective knowledge worker.  

Learn how to use online resources to create customized lists of organizations in the private and public sector by region and specialization. Also how to download these lists to Excel for further analysis. The resources to be reviewed are at this site - https://researchguides.library.tufts.edu/jobs2/Targeted_Lists.   

Learn how to use online resources to create customized lists of organizations in the private and public sector by region and specialization. Also how to download these lists to Excel for further analysis. The resources to be reviewed are at this site - https://researchguides.library.tufts.edu/jobs2/Targeted_Lists.   

This session will review how to use the Pitchbook database for locating information on private and public companies, new industry sectors, entrepreneurial finance as well as firms and deals in the impact investment space.  It will also highlight other sources available at Tufts for PE/VC finance information. 

Want to learn more about using Bloomberg, a financial services resource with real time business data?  This session will review finding equity and industry data on Bloomberg and how this resource complements other databases Fletcher has for financial information.  It will also cover locating bonds, indices, currencies, where to find deal and VC/PE investment related information, ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) information, how to access it and answer any other questions you might have about Bloomberg.