A few weeks ago my partner shared a TED Talk with me that changed how I conceptualize data communication. In it Dr. Wanda Diaz Merced, an astronomer who lost her …
Sonification for Data Communication
Author: Connor M French
GCDI is Here for You!
Note: This updated post by GC Digital Fellow Connor French is based on an earlier post written by Digital Fellow Jojo Karlin for the spring 2018 semester. Subsequently, it was …
Welcome Back!
Greetings Digital GC, and welcome back! May your winter breaks have been cheerful, restful, and productive. As you transition back to your semesterly schedule, let us remind and update you …
GIS at Scale with Google Earth Engine
Sometimes your GIS project needs some extra oomph. Maybe finding the data you need to understand deforestation in Brazil is giving you a headache. Or, you need to run a …
RStudio Cloud for Education
The R programming language is a powerful analytical tool that is commonly taught alongside applied fields like statistics, ecology, finance, and more. Efficiently integrating the language into a course can …
Interactively Explore Geographic Data in R Using Leaflet
Note: An interactive version of this tutorial is available at https://connor-french.com/post/leaflet-tutorial/ Why leaflet? Making a data visualization interactive opens up a host of opportunities for new insights. This is especially …
How to apply machine learning and deep learning methods to audio analysis
While much of the writing and literature on deep learning concerns computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), audio analysis — a field that includes automatic speech recognition (ASR), digital signal processing, …
A judge said police can search the DNA of 1 million Americans without their consent. What’s next?
For the first time, a state judge has forced a public genealogy site, GEDmatch, to allow police to search its entire database of DNA profiles. A detective wanted to find …
Topic choice works against black NIH applicants
In 2011, a study led by economist Donna Ginther of the University of Kansas in Lawrence found that black applicants were significantly less likely than white applicants to be funded …
Quickstart Guide to R Package Building
Want to make your research more reproducible? Try housing it within an R package! While R packages are typically used to house broadly applicable functions for defined use-cases, they offer …
