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In this week’s Tagging the Tower post, GC Digital Fellow Leanne Fan explains how to extract text from images. If you’ve ever saved a photograph of a newspaper or book and you really wanted to copy and select the […]

In his most recent blog post, GC Digital Fellow Rilquer Mascarenhas provides an extremely useful guide to organizing data for making maps. This is a very useful post for people looking to better understand how to […]

Hello all! I hope you had a restful Thanksgiving break. We’re back with another busy week at GC Digital Initiatives! I want to begin this week’s post by highlighting our upcoming workshop Plugging into APIs, […]

Welcome to another packed week at GC Digital Initiatives! I want to begin this week’s post by highlighting our upcoming workshop Mapping Your Way Into Mapping: An Intro to GIS Concepts, taking place this Wednesday […]

This week’s Tagging the Tower post is written by GC Digital Fellow Rebecca Kreisel and it covers her thoughts and experiences at the January 2021 GC Digital Research Institute. Rebecca shares her […]

The GC Digital Fellows program goes back more than a decade. During these many years, dozens of fellows have authored hundreds of blog posts discussing digital tools and chasing new ideas in the field of digital […]

The GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI)
Jan 18th – Jan 20th and Jan 23rd – Jan 24th, 2023
Application due: Monday November 28th, 2022, at 11:59pm.
Are you interested in using digital tools in your res […]

Welcome to another packed week at GC Digital Initiatives! I want to begin this week’s post by reminding everyone of several upcoming deadlines for exciting opportunities:

CUNY DHI Lightning Talks Event […]

This week’s Tagging the Tower post comes from GC Digital Fellow Silvia Rivera Alfaro. Silvia’s post provides an introduction and overview of WordPress, one of the world’s most popular website building and content […]

Welcome to another packed week at GC Digital Initiatives! I want to begin this week’s post by highlighting the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative event taking place on Monday November 14th, 2022. This is a fun […]

This post covers how to use the IPUMS CPS Online Data Analysis System to generate summary data from the US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly stratified sample survey o […]

In this helpful post, Digital Fellow Yuxiao Luo provides a nifty new way to update R on Windows computers. This new method for updating R will be available for Mac users soon as well. Yuxiao provides a […]

Welcome to another packed week at GC Digital Initiatives! I want to begin this week’s post by highlighting 2 opportunities to receive funding for your research: Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants (PDIG) and the D […]

In this Tagging the Tower post, GC Digital Fellow Zachary Lloyd discusses the difficulties of reading software documentation. Zachary recognizes the “overwhelming, large, complex, and confusing” nature of […]