Getting the Most out of the WordPress Dashboard: Custom Menus and Plug-ins

Room 9205 @ 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 to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

#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 …

Plenary: Professor Anthea Butler in Conversation with Provost Chase F. Robinson

Elebash Hall @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Professor Anthea Butler is a renowned scholar of religion and a public intellectual who engages broader publics beyond the academy.  In an hour-long conversation, Graduate Center Provost Chase F. Robinson and Professor Butler will discuss what it means to be an intellectual in the digital age, how this is changing scholarship, and what it all …

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 to 1pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY. These Graduate Center Ph.D. students will be offering workshops to help faculty and graduate students improve their digital …

DH 2013: Tools and Methods – in-class workshops

MALS and Digital Humanities GC students may attend these classes on a space-available basis: interested students must contact Prof. Arienne Dwyer to confirm space availability and scheduling: [email protected].   Course site: http://dhmethods13.commons.gc.cuny.edu/course/syllabus/   Course Description This is a hands-on course, which is the second semester of a two course core sequence in Digital Humanities. Its …

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 your research.  We will cover a range of options and comparative benefits between them, including Zotero, Sugar Sync, Evernote, Drop Box, and Google Drive. Level: …

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 be an active link in the “Live Videos” box on the upper right hand corner.  You can click on that link and will be brought …

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 has become the first place most people turn for information. As part of a nationwide event, a group of us will meet at the Graduate …

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 ""deep learning."" (The name ""neural"" is just an analogy; these are computer programs and have nothing directly to do with biology.) This talk will discuss …