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This group accompanies the the GCDI website (http://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/). Here, members of the GC community can share news of recent events and new projects and can begin to build connections between projects.
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Blog: GIS at Scale with Google Earth Engine from Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center in the group
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 1 month, 1 week agoIn this blog post GC Digital Fellow Connor French teaches you how to add “some extra oomph” to your GIS project. Connor discusses different datasets as well as […]
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Blog: Thinking with Sound: Starting a Podcast Project from Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center in the group
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 1 month, 1 week agoIn this blog post GC Digital Fellow Di Yoong discusses ways of getting your Sound Studies project off the ground by focusing on how to make a podcast. What is the […]
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Blog: Apply for the GC Digital Research Institute 2021 from Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center in the group
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 1 month, 1 week agoThe GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI) Workshop Series Six sessions over 5 weeks – January 29 – February 27, 2021 Application due: December 7th, 11:59pm Are you […]
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Luke Waltzer started the topic Opposition to CUNY’s Contract Renewal with Turnitin in the forum
Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 1 month, 2 weeks agoDear Colleagues,
We recently learned that at the December 14th meeting, the Board of Trustees will be voting to approve a $2m contract with Turnitin.
Lisa Rhody, Roxanne Shirazi, and I have prepared testimony opposition this contract, which must be submitted to the BOT by December 7.
You can read the statement here:…[Read more]
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Blog: Developing Communities of Practice through Digital Pedagogy from Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center in the group
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 1 month, 2 weeks agoOn December 3, 2020 GC Digital Initiatives collaborated with a group of professors from City College as part of a panel for the CUNY IT Conference. Our panel’s […]
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Lisa Marie Rhody started the topic Invitation: Join the Methods of Text Analysis Class for Roundtable Discussion in the forum
Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 1 month, 2 weeks agoHello! My name is Lisa Rhody, and this semester I’m teaching Methods of Text Analysis, which is part of the MA in Digital Humanities program. On Tuesday, December 8th at 4:15 PM, we are going to open our class up to members of the GC community who wish to join us for 3 roundtable discussions. More information can be found below. I hope you will…[Read more]
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Yuxiao Luo started the topic Dec 4th @3:30 pm: Data Visulization (Discussion of Unsctructured Data) in the forum
Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 1 month, 3 weeks agoHi all,
Our next group meeting is on Dec 4th (3:30 pm – 5:00 pm), please mark it on your Calendar. Feel free to join and talk about anything related to unstructured data visualization. I can introduce and show you how to do unstructured data visualization (primarily unstructured text) in R. For example, preprocessing, word cloud, topic…[Read more]
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Blog: Apply by 12/4 to be part of this year’s Data for Public Good cohort from Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center in the group
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 1 month, 3 weeks agoCall for Participation The Data for Public Good Project in partnership with the COVID Tracking Project 2020-2021 Applications due by 5:00 PM EST on Friday, […]
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Param Ajmera started the topic Sound Studies Group Open Meeting – Dec. 7 at 2pm in the forum
Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 1 month, 3 weeks agoHello all!!
The next Sound Studies and Methods working group meeting will take place on Monday Dec. 7 at 2pm. Will be exploring the Musical Passage project to discuss the various aspects of designing a Sound Studies project.
The Zoom details for the meeting will be shared in the Sound Studies commons group, so please join our group!
Until…[Read more]
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Yuxiao Luo started the topic Discussion of Unstructured Data Visualization (Zoom session is available) in the forum
Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 2 months agoIn data visualization, we often come across these two data types: structured data and unstructured data. In this post, we will briefly talk about unstructured data visualization. Usually, unstructured data includes text, image, video, sound, imaging (x-ray, FMR, etc.). In most cases, we have to convert unstructured data to structured data before…[Read more]
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Blog: Google Photos is ending unlimited free storage. Here’s what you need to know – CNET from Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center in the group
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 2 months agoBy now, many have heard that Google Photos will no longer provide unlimited free storage for photos and videos, so that people will sign up for a paid subscription […]
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Di Yoong started the topic Nov 16 @ 2pm: Sound Studies Co-working Session in the forum
Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 2 months, 1 week agoHi everyone!
The Sound Studies and Methods Working Group will be holding our monthly co-working session on Nov 16th (Mon) at 2pm. Our sessions are open opportunities for anyone to join the Zoom call and receive some support as they are thinking and working through sound projects. There will be at least one GCDI Fellow on the call who can answer…[Read more]
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Blog: Mapping the Effects of COVID-19 – GC Digital Fellows from Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center in the group
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 2 months, 1 week agoIn this informative post, GC Digital Fellow Olivia Ildefonso discusses the GIS /Mapping Working Group’s project to assess the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on […]
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Yuxiao Luo started the topic Discussion of Structured Data Visualization (Zoom session is available) in the forum
Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 2 months, 1 week agoIn data visualization, we often come across these two data types: structured data and unstructured data. In this post, we will briefly talk about structured data visualization. Usually, structured data includes table, database, network, geo-spatial, time series, and 3D model.
A. For network data, you can check out some creative and interesting…[Read more]
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Blog: The Dictatorship of Data from Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center in the group
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 2 months, 2 weeks agoRobert McNamara is remembered as JFK’s and LBJ’s secretary of defense, who was a primary motivator in escalating the Vietnam War. What is less known about […]
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Blog: Body Language from Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center in the group
GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center 2 months, 2 weeks agoIn this thought provoking article from The Baffler, Sanjana Varghese discusses the dangers of biometric surveillance beyond facial recognition. Whereas facial […]
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