“TBD:” A Talk by Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

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

Increasingly, it would seem, the future is already known, determined by algorithms that analyze, predict and pre-empt actions.  Privacy is dead, and so is consent, because regardless of our own …

The Art of Seeing: Aesthetics at the Intersection of Art and Science

Room C197 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

In this two-part presentation, art historian Emily L. Spratt and computer scientist Ahmed Elgammal explore the uses of vision technology for the analysis of art and its philosophical implications for …

Digital Poetics: A Roundtable

Room 4406 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

This panel will place in conversation an array of scholars, artists, poets, and archivists from the New York City area to discuss the intersection between the poetic and the digital …

Citizen Cartography @NYPL: Map Warper Workshop at the GC

Room C203 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

The New York Public Library’s Map Warper is a free online crowdsourcing tool that enables librarians and the general public to align digital images of historical maps with today’s map …

Doc-a-thon for better docs!

Doc-a-thon March 6th, 5:00-10:00 PM Room 3317 The Digital Fellows, part of the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives at The Graduate Center, CUNY, will be hosting a Doc-a-thon to generate better …

Cleaning data with OpenRefine

Room 6496 @ The GC 365 5th Ave., New York, NY

Data cleaning is an important step in any data-driven research project. Often data is harvested from diverse sources such as the web, databases, spreadsheets, text files, and countless other places. Before it is cleaned, “messy” data can suffer from a host of problems, including inconsistent encodings, formats, and missing values to name just a few. …