Greetings, All,

Zach Muhlbauer, a PhD Candidate in English and TLC Fellow, has been nominated for a 2024 DH Award in the category BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN for his project “Babylon Redux.”

Please consider voting for his project here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBI4DwQQw3LOXlIUnZ6RrGGf-gST1HEZf5-5WuBmq2YvydRg/viewform.

And consider…[Read more]

This semester, the R User Group meeting has been integrated into the Digital Scholarship Drop-in Hours, held on Mondays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. These drop-in hour sessions take place online via Zoom. I will be available during the drop-in hours on March 17, April 7, and April 28. If you have any R-related questions, feel free to join on these…[Read more]

Are you searching for ways to make your classroom environment more collaborative, liberating and supportive? Have you been wondering what abolition means and looks like in an academic context?

Join the conversation during a panel discussion hosted by the Teaching and Learning Center at the CUNY Graduate Center. Scholars and activists RaShelle…[Read more]

Hello all, I wanted to let you know that the Commons hosting migration that we announced last month will begin in one week, at 10:30am Eastern on Wednesday, January 15th. Because of the size and complexity of the data involved, please expect the Commons to be unavailable for 48-72 hours after the migration starts. During the downtime, we will…[Read more]

Hello Commons group admins, I wanted to let you know that we are planning a maintenance and feature release on Tuesday, Dec 17th around 11am Eastern. It is possible that the site will experience a couple hours of downtime as a result.

We apologize for any inconvenience. We are planning for this to be our last release before our scheduled hosting…[Read more]

Happy holidays, all!

I wanted to let you know that the CUNY Academic Commons team just published this news post about two big upcoming projects. We are migrating hosts to improve Commons stability and performance, and we are starting a biannual series of Open Community Meetings to share updates, answer questions, and hear your feedback. We hope t…[Read more]

Happy holidays, Commons Group Admins!

Our team just published this news post about two big upcoming projects. We are migrating hosts to improve Commons stability and performance, and we are starting a biannual series of Open Community Meetings to share updates, answer questions, and hear your feedback. We hope that you can join the first meeting…[Read more]

The GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI)

January 21st – 24, 2025

Application due: December 6th, 12:00pm

http://cuny.is/gcdri

Are you interested in using digital tools in your research, but don’t know where to start? Do you want to learn more about digital technologies alongside a supportive group of your peers?

The GC Digital Research Inst…[Read more]

The GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI)January 21st – 24, 2025

Application due: December 3rd, 11:59pm

http://cuny.is/gcdri

Are you interested in using digital tools in your research, but don’t know where to start? Do you want to learn more about digital technologies alongside a supportive group of your peers?

The GC Digital Research In…[Read more]

Hi all,

Our next (and last) R user group meeting for this semester will be held tomorrow (Nov. 26th) from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.. We will do some practice on data visualization using ggplot2 in R if no specific needs are requested. Here is the Zoom link:

Join Zoom…[Read more]

Hi all,

Tomorrow we will have our second R user group meeting on Zoom from 11:00 am to 12 pm. The content of the meeting depends on the need of the participants. If no special need is requested, we will go through basics of data wrangling in R.

Here is the link to the meeting:

Join Zoom…[Read more]

GC Digital Initiatives is excited to host the 10th annual Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) Lightning Talks on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from 5:30- 7:30 PM. The event will be hybrid, allowing presenters/audience members to join online over Zoom or in-person at the Graduate Center in rooms 9205/9206 (9F). Each year the event brings together…[Read more]

Hi all,

Our first R user group meeting is going to be held tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 22nd) from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.. Feel free to bring any project ideas or anything you want to learn about R to the meeting, so that we can figure out what to do for the following meetings! Here is the Zoom link to the meeting:

Chen Zhou is inviting you to a…[Read more]

Hello Commons Group Admins, I wanted to let you know that the Commons will be inaccessible for maintenance tomorrow evening, Friday 10/18/2024, at 9:30 pm ET for two to three hours. Thanks for your patience, and feel free to message me with any questions!

Colin McDonald
Commons Project Manager
https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/colinmcd/

Hi all,

I’m launching R user group meetings for those who are interested in learning R for data analysis/wrangling/visualization. The first meeting will be on the week of Oct. Oct 21st to 25th. I’m thinking about making it a biweekly meeting, but you don’t have to attend all of them. If you want to join the meeting, please fill out the poll to…[Read more]

Our first meeting of the semester is today  10/16 on zoom from 2-4.  We’ll post a zoom link in this thread a few minutes before 2. 

Are you working on mapping projects or interested in GIS?

We invite you to join our GIS/Mapping User Group (MUG) this fall! This group offers a collaborative space for anyone working with spatial data, GIS tools, or…[Read more]