Upcoming Events: Lippincott Library of the Wharton School

Sep 01

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Excel Basics: Get Started with Tables

This introductory workshop is for Penn community members who are new to organizing data in Microsoft Excel, providing an orientation to Excel and table-formatted data as a step toward supporting data analysis (systematically handling and interpreting data) within the program.

• September 1, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:15pm
• Hybrid: Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center; and Online

Sep 01

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

PitchBook 101

PitchBook is a leading platform for researching private and public companies, from competitors and cap tables to financials and financing history. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to navigate the platform, customize your experience, and efficiently uncover the information you need.

• September 1, 2026
• 3:30pm - 4:15pm
• Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Sep 02

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

R Basics: Get Started in RStudio​

This workshop provides an orientation to R and RStudio as a step toward understanding R code and supporting data analysis in R.

• September 2, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• Hybrid: Online and at Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Sep 02

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Bloomberg 101

This class provides a hands-on introduction to Bloomberg's database structure and essential commands through practical, real-world examples.

• September 2, 2026
• 3:30pm - 4:30pm
• Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Sep 08

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Excel Basics: Summarize Data

This workshop provides techniques for grouping by labels and summarizing numeric or countable content in Excel so that learners can develop reports or begin data analysis.

• September 8, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:15pm
• Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Sep 09

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

R Basics: Prepare Data for​ Modeling and Analysis

This workshop provides techniques for organizing both numeric (numbers) and character (text) content in R such that learners could generate outcomes from standard statistical or machine learning models.

• September 9, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• Hybrid: Online and at Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Sep 09

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Business Research Strategies

Join us for an overview of essential business resources and self-help tools from Lippincott Library to support your academic, career and entrepreneurial goals, from accessing key publications like Harvard Business Review to researching industries and finding financial data.

• September 9, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Room 247: Joseph B. Glossberg Seminar Room, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

Sep 15

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Excel Basics: Visualize Data​

This workshop provides techniques for choosing and generating Excel Charts so that learners can express data-based insights effectively.

• September 15, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• Hybrid: Online and at Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

Sep 16

• Workshop

Open to Penn Students, Faculty, and Staff

Quarto with R​: Code and Author in the Same File​

This workshop offers techniques for formatting text, citations, code, and figures in Quarto and R Markdown so learners can produce submission-ready academic papers, slide presentations, websites, and more.

• September 16, 2026
• 12:00pm - 1:45pm
• Hybrid: Online and in Yablon Financial Resources Lab, Room 244, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center