GCDI Welcomes You Back for Fall '24! Welcome back for the fall semester! The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and GC Digital Fellows have been hard at work developing […]

Digital tools and military technology– Reflections on AI amidst genocide In the past few years, conversations about data ethics have taken up a place of central importance in the fields of digital humanities […]

What’s a Classicist like me doing in a digital intensive workshop like this? Patricia HatcherDRI Participant, Winter 2024 That’s right, I’m a Classicist— the kind who works on Greek and Latin literature. The k […]

Unlocking Python's Power with the DRIBy Annapia Borraccino DRI Participant, Winter 2024 “Coding can’t be that hard, you just need to practice it.” This was m […]

Digital Women: Commemorating Women's History Month March is Women’s History Month and I want to bring that to the digital fellows’ blog. First, I want to say that when I mention w […]

10 Useful Extensions for VSCode As a Digital Fellow, I often teach workshops that utilize the text editor VSCode. During these workshops, I almost always find myself […]

Apply by March 22, 2024 to be a GC Digital FellowAre you looking for a fellowship that will challenge you to enhance your existing technical skills? Do you enjoy working collaboratively with an […]

The smartwatch dilemmaI started to think about purchasing a smartwatch amid a strong need to improve my health. Could this tool keep health information that […]

Think Like a Coder: Introduction to Algorithms Part 2This a continuation of Think Like a Coder: Introduction to Algorithms Part 1. Be sure to also check out this semester’s Think Like a […]

Welcome back for the Spring '24 semester!The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and GC Digital Fellows have been hard at work developing programming, events, […]

Digital Humanities Tools for Beginners and Non-codersDear beginners to Digital Humanities and non-coder academics, I have some good news for you: you can begin your digital humanities […]

Think Like a Coder Imagine if I gave you a list of items and asked whether it contained a particular element. If it were, say, a list of ingredients, you […]

Geochicas: beyond map making In the last Digital Fellows’ post, Anna Corbett shared a wonderful post on Mapping and Its Discontents. Here I write shortly about […]

Mapping and its Discontents – Denaturalizing the Map in Cartographic History Part 1 Maps are an incredibly useful tool. They allow us to both analyze and communicate our research, and help us easily decide between (and […]

Creating Visual Novels with Python and Ren'Py Visual Novels (VN) are an increasingly popular form of interactive fiction, now often hitting the tops of the Steam (computer game […]

Death of a ProjectHello, I’m Leanne and I’m a recalcitrant ITP (Interactive Technology Pedagogy) student and these are my stories… One of the pro […]

Building Your First Database in SQL – GC Digital Fellows Building Your First Database in SQL Creating a database is a fundamental skill […]

Opening our house, opening our lab! – GC Digital Fellows Opening our house, opening our lab! On September 6th, friendly conversations about […]