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  • Introduction to Web Frameworks

    This workshop will teach you the basics of using various web frameworks to build your web application or service.

  • The Complexity of Machine Writing

    It is a commonplace that computers will only do what human beings tell them and that they require clear, unambiguous instructions.  In practice, however, instructions that are simple and clear from a human perspective can be nearly impossible to translate into a form that a computer can execute.  Nowhere is this truer than in the computational processing of language.  It […]

  • MEDIA RES #2: NYC DH Lightning Talks

    Curious about what sort of DH projects graduate students are working on in New York City? The GC Digital Fellows are partnering with graduate students from NYU, Columbia, Fordham, and Stony Brook for Media Res #2, a showcase of graduate student DH work happening across NYC universities.

  • Introduction to Web Scraping for Researchers

    Web Scraping – Social Media GC Digital Fellows Workshop October 19, 2015 INTRODUCTION DISCUSSION TUTORIAL: STATIC SITE TUTORIAL: RSS FEED TUTORIAL: USER NETWORKS TUTORIAL: TWITTER TOPICS INTRODUCTION The Internet (broadly defined) has drastically changed modern life and the way that information is transferred. It is only logical that researchers would correspondingly wish to study the data made available through the […]

  • Treebanking with Arethusa

    Treebanks are text corpuses which have had their syntactic structures annotated in a machine-readable format.  They are used by computational linguists and others to conduct syntactic and stylometric studies of texts and corpuses.  Syntactic annotation, which can be thought of as a very precise form of sentence diagramming, is normally performed manually by humans–as opposed to machines–to ensure the accuracy of […]

  • Django Hack Night

    What is Django? Django is an open source web framework based on Python. A web application framework is a suite of interlocked programs that help people create dynamic web services such as blogs and apps. What is the difference between a site created in Django and one created on the CUNY Academic Commons or a CBOX (Commons in a Box) […]

  • Intro to the Command Line

    Handout for a workshop on using the command line

  • Set up a development environment

    # Dev Environment A development environment is one where you can make the software you need to run. You need this to run the latest free software which is often only implemented in source code. Particularly to take advantage of common mathematical libraries you need a Fortran, C and C++ compiler even if you never use those languages directly. This […]

  • What’s in a Wiki?

    What are we really asking when we ask people to contribute to a crowd-sourced project? What do they gain? What are the ethics or politics? Is it best to ask people who have something to gain from using the resource? What’s the difference between volunteerism and unpaid labor?  I’ve been wrestling with these questions as I learn to edit and […]

  • Learn Bootstrap Part 3: Customize Bootstrap and Add a Header

    For this lesson, we will generate our own customized version of Bootstrap with modified colors, styles, etc., add it to our WordPress theme, and then incorporate Bootstrap into the site’s header.
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