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  • Greetings Digital GC – Welcome back!

    Welcome back for the spring 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 […]

  • Getting Started with Pygame

    In the Intro to Educational Game Design workshop held last October, we discussed a few common tools and software for designing computer games.  In this post, I’d like to follow up with a more detailed look at one tool in particular:  Pygame.  If you know a bit of Python and want to jump right in to creating games, Pygame is […]

  • Introduction to R and RStudio

    What is R and RStudio? The term R is referring to both the programming language and the free software environment for data analysis and graphics. R is widely used for data science, statistical and mathematical computing, data visualization, algorithm and application development, report writing, etc. RStudio is currently a very popular way to not only write your scripts but also […]

  • Quick and easy mapping with R

    The R language is a very versatile tool, which explains why it is used by so many academics (with a growing community). Almost any statistical modeling can be done in the R platform, and several packages for a number of tools have been developed in the past years . It is easy to get lost when you have one simple […]

  • GCDI is Here for You!

    Greetings Digital GC – Welcome back! 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. As you transition back to the academic year, please take a moment to review what has changed, what has stayed […]

  • Basic Audio Editing with Audacity

    A couple of weeks ago, I ran a workshop on the Basics of Audio Editing with Audacity. This workshop comes after my Fall workshop on Getting Good (Enough) Audio Recording. For those who might be considering sound projects but were not able to participate in the previous workshops, I hope this post will be useful to you as I recap […]

  • Sonification for Data Communication

    A few weeks ago my partner shared a TED Talk with me that changed how I conceptualize data communication. In it Dr. Wanda Diaz Merced, an astronomer who lost her eyesight in her early twenties, discusses her journey back into science after this setback. A crucial technique helped her interpret hefty astronomy data sets- sonification. Sonification turns data into sound. […]

  • Choosing the Right Platform for Your Digital Archive

    Please note: This blogpost is a summary of a GCDI workshop that I co-led with Filipa Calado on March 17, 2021.   During my tenure as a Digital Fellow, I have led my Intro to Omeka workshop multiple times. One of the recurring questions in that context has been: Why should I choose Omeka over WordPress to build my digital archive?  […]

  • The Digital Research Institute Workshop Series

    Between January 29 and February 27, the Digital Fellows ran their annual Digital Research Institute (DRI), which teaches foundational skills for doing digital research, as a remote Workshop Series. For this iteration of the institute, we transformed our usual in-person, 4-day institute into a series of workshops held remotely over 5 weekends. Each Saturday, 28 participants from 18 different programs […]

  • GIS at Scale with Google Earth Engine

    Sometimes your GIS project needs some extra oomph. Maybe finding the data you need to understand deforestation in Brazil is giving you a headache. Or, you need to run a machine learning algorithm on 50 gigabytes of weather station data and your poor laptop is melting the finish off of your dining room table. Google Earth Engine (GEE) is here […]
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