What did data look like before the digital age, and what can it teach us about data collection, organization, and documentation for modern research? Join us to explore more than 100 years of Kentucky weather ledgers containing hand-collected records from the National Weather Service, focusing on periods of three historic floods in 1913. 1937, and 1978. Get your data fix with a side of local history as we answer questions like:

• How do teams of data collectors make sure they’re recording information in a consistent manner?
• How do individual data points get combined and transformed to produce meaningful summary results?
• How do long-term data collection projects change over time while still enabling comparison to the past?

The Stacks is located on the ground floor of the King Library Annex. The entrance is on the south side of the building. The King Library Building is located in the central campus, south of Patterson Drive and west of Rose Street, between the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library and Pence Hall.

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