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Digital Humanities Initiative

The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

We meet regularly on- and offline to explore key topics in the Digital Humanities, and share our work, questions, and concerns. See our blog for more information on upcoming events (it’s also where we present our group’s work to a wider audience). Help edit the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, our first group project. And, of course, join the conversation on the Forum.

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Frank Donnelly has a new book!!

  • Hi All,

    Huge congratulations to Baruch Geospatial Data Librarian Frank Donnelly on the publication of his new book, Exploring the US Census: Your Guide to America’s Data (SAGE Publishing, 2019). Frank has helped so many of us over the years understand geospatial work — I have very fond memories of the QGIS workshop I took with him years ago!! — and it is wonderful to see his work in print. Congratulations, Frank!!!

    From the publisher:

    Exploring the US Census is the definitive researcher’s guide to working with census data. I place the census within the context of: US society, the open data movement, and the big data universe, provide a crash course on using the new data.census.gov, and introduce the fundamental concepts of census geography and subject categories (aka universes). One chapter is devoted to each of the primary datasets: decennial census (with details about the 2020 census that’s just over the horizon), American Community Survey, Population Estimates Program, and business data from the Business Patterns, Economic Census, and BLS. Subsequent chapters demonstrate how to: integrate census data into writing and research, map census data in GIS, create derivative measures, and work with historic data and microdata with a focus on the Current Population Survey.

    https://atcoordinates.info/2019/11/18/exploring-the-us-census-book-published/

     

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