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  • Digital tools and military technology– Reflections on AI amidst genocide

    In the past few years, conversations about data ethics have taken up a place of central importance in the fields of digital humanities and geography. We’ve become increasingly aware of the delicateness and care with which academics have to employ digital tools. As a geographer, I’m concerned with the ways that people, academics included, make and remake the world around […]

  • What’s a Classicist like me doing in a digital intensive workshop like this?

    Patricia HatcherDRI Participant, Winter 2024 That’s right, I’m a Classicist— the kind who works on Greek and Latin literature. The kindwhom you imagine to be holed up in a library somewhere, surrounded by dusty old books.The kind who is in a field that is slowly realizing that, to remain relevant in the modernworld, it needs to more fully embrace technology. […]

  • Unlocking Python’s Power with the DRI

    By Annapia Borraccino DRI Participant, Winter 2024 “Coding can’t be that hard, you just need to practice it.” This was my mantra before I chose to move all the way from Italy to New York City to pursue a career in Computational Linguistics. However, my perspective shifted during the first semester as I grappled with overwhelming anxiety while delving into […]

  • Digital Women: Commemorating Women’s History Month

    March is Women’s History Month and I want to bring that to the digital fellows’ blog. First, I want to say that when I mention women, I am including cis and trans women (I wish soon this would be too obvious to have to clarify it!). In line with this month, I want to share some resources and ideas for […]

  • 10 Useful Extensions for VSCode

    As a Digital Fellow, I often teach workshops that utilize the text editor VSCode. During these workshops, I almost always find myself recommending that the participants install extensions to the editor.  Extensions are, as the name implies, tools that the VSCode community of developers have created to extend the functionality of the editor. While it’s true that VSCode offers a […]

  • The smartwatch dilemma

    I started to think about purchasing a smartwatch amid a strong need to improve my health. Could this tool keep health information that would help me understand how to improve certain practices? Could it support me in my goals or tasks? More generally, how could it contribute to my life? I started imagining myself wearing the watch. Since I am […]

  • Think Like a Coder: Introduction to Algorithms Part 2

    This a continuation of Think Like a Coder: Introduction to Algorithms Part 1. Be sure to also check out this semester’s Think Like a Coder workshop. Introduction Last time, we considered a simple program that was merely searching for a target element in a list. Now imagine a program that involves doing some sort of a calculation or additional check […]

  • Welcome back for the Spring ’24 semester!

    The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and GC Digital Fellows have been hard at work developing programming, events, workshops, and opportunities to help you continue to learn and to develop your digital scholarly projects. This semester, please take a moment to review what has changed, what has stayed the same, and how you can continue to find the same support […]

  • Digital Humanities Tools for Beginners and Non-coders

    Dear beginners to Digital Humanities and non-coder academics, I have some good news for you: you can begin your digital humanities project and explore different tools before you learn to code or not learn to code at all. As scholars, we continue to learn and decide which digital skills are best suited for our research and projects. We may learn […]

  • Think Like a Coder

    Imagine if I gave you a list of items and asked whether it contained a particular element. If it were, say, a list of ingredients, you would probably have no choice but to read every single entry until you found the target item. For instance, does the following list contain “salt”? TOMATO CONCENTRATE FROM RED RIPE TOMATOES, DISTILLED VINEGAR, HIGH […]
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