The Empirical Reasoning Center (ERC) is the place to go for all your data analysis help throughout your time at Barnard. We help faculty, students, and alumnae engage critically with data - quantitative, qualitative and spatial. Our goal is to ensure everyone has the resources they need to be data literate, no matter what discipline or career path they are interested in.
Through workshops and staffed drop-in hours, the ERC provides the Barnard community with empirical research support and technology training, ranging from Excel, to survey creation, to geographic information systems (GIS).
The lab is staffed by graduate lab assistants and undergraduate empirical reasoning fellows dedicated to supporting empirical reasoning across the curriculum. We also have a full-time team that teaches workshops, manages the lab, and plans programming.
We host events on a variety of topics and in diverse formats including technical workshops, data physicalization and getting creative with data, important conversations on data ethics and data justice, and presentations rom industry and academic speakers. This image shows our recent collaboration with the DHC, with speakers from the Envisioning Seneca Village Project (featuring our faculty director Gergely Baics!)
We are so excited to share that the ERC is launching ERCLearningLab,a website with tutorials, cheat sheets, how-to’s and recordings accessible to all Barnard community members for self-guided learning.
Through this inaugural collaboration with Design Summer Institute, the College empowers and equips young women to pursue careers in architecture and design.
Barnard’s Empirical Reasoning Center has grown exponentially over the decade — from a lab with part-time staff to a thriving resource for faculty, students, staff, and the community beyond the College’s gates.
