A lot of talk is given to spatial data in the vector format (i.e., points, lines and polygons) when making maps. After all, they serve as the actual baseline for your map visualization. They reveal the limits and location of entities you want to visualize and point your audience...

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”  – Milan Kundera I was recently talking with a medievalist in the Graduate Center’s English program, Chris Buonanno, who remarked that vellum manuscripts of the middle ages which have survived did so partly because of the...

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...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Apple (just kidding) I attempted many different solutions to convert photos of news articles into machine-readable text, until I found something that worked. Skip ahead to “Apple Monterrey” if you don’t want to read the obligatory life story before the recipe!...

As a form of data visualization, mapping is an informative way to explore and communicate our data and results. However, transforming information into a map-ready dataset is not always an intuitive task. Even when we have coordinates, or locality names, associated with what we collected or summarized, it may...