#Altmetrics: Changing Measures of Scholarly Impact

In a previous era, scholarly impact was measured exclusively through things like publishing in academic journals with high ‘impact factors’ and counting the number of citations of those publications. The digital era raises important opportunities, and challenges, for new ways of measuring scholarly impact.  This new way of thinking about scholarly impact is referred to …

An Introduction to WordPress for Scholarly Web Presence

Room 9204 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Wish you could jump into the digital conversation by actually using digital and social media? You can. JustPublics@365 is offering free workshops for academics on Wednesday, March 6th, from 10am …

Research Management: How to Keep Your Sources and Your Sanity

Room C196.01 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

This workshop will introduce the triple threats of digital research management: citation managers, cloud storage, and annotating tools, with a focus on the best ways to organize and back up …

NoSQL Databases

Room 4441 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

"NoSQL Databases" Sharon Barr, VP of Engineering, COUCHBASE NoSQL Database Server The presentation will also be streamed: please go to videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu. Once there, and the stream is started, there will …

Feminists POC Wikipedia Takeover!

According to Wikimedia, 87% of Wikipedia editors are men and are most commonly white men in their mid-twenties. Countless groups have wondered about the bias that this creates on what …

Neural Networks: From Basics to New Developments

Speaker: Anthony Babinec, President of AB Analytics Synopsis: Neural networks are one of the new statistical tools that data mining or machine learning has provided for prediction and classification and …