A Conceptual Guide to Digital Academic Identity
Read moreIn November of 2015, shortly after beginning my career as a doctoral student at the Graduate Center, I received an email from Victor Papa, president of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council. Papa expressed his interest in commemorating the Italian American community of the former Lung Block, an area on...
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Finding Data for Mapping: Tips and Tricks
Read moreIn the mapping workshops that we offer, a recurrent question refers to where to get the data. Every time students attend one of these workshops, all the datasets are given to them, so it is understandable that many might wonder where the instructors get this information from. This is...
GC Digital Research Institute Applications Open
Read moreApplications open for the January GC Digital Research Institute Generously supported by the Provost’s Office, the GC Digital Research Institute guides an interdisciplinary cohort of graduate students, faculty, and instructional staff as they learn foundational technical skills that can aid–and even extend–their scholarship. Faculty who have participated in past GCDRIs...
Using Voyant-Tools to Formulate Research Questions for Textual Data
Read moreWhat do you know about text analysis (also known as text mining)? If you’re familiar with data mining, or extracting information or patterns from data sets, you can probably imagine how the same processes may be applied to text. Text analysis uses computational methods to extract or categorize certain...
Uses of tech while drafting my second exam bibs: taxonomies and track changes
Read moreKelsey’s image: A photo of the GC anthropology program’s bookshelf in the lounge, while the books were still organized according not to author or topic but color. Impractical, yes, but more poetic. Part 1: Taxonomies I admittedly have hit my fifth year in the GC’s cultural anthropology PhD program...
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