Intro to R and RStudio

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All GCDI meetings and events will convene remotely until further notice. Please register for the event you’d like to participate in at least two hours prior to the event, and a link and password to join the event will be shared within one hour of the start.

Web Design: Prioritizing What Matters

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Looking to update your website? In the wake of COVID, many organizations are looking to improve their online presence. In the first of three programs focused on digital communications, Nicholas MacDonald will share what makes a good website, best practices in design, and how to approach building a new website. Virtual Program Registrants will receive …

Getting Good (Enough) Audio Recording [Hybrid]

As we continue to work from home in our remote environments, this has sparked renewed interest in the possibilities of audio recording. While there may be many different entries into audio recording, this hybrid workshop will focus on understanding what a good (enough) audio recording for podcasting, interviewing, and streaming is and how that might …

GIS/Mapping Co-Working Sessions

This fall the GIS/Mapping Working Group will be holding monthly co-working sessions on Zoom. This will be an opportunity for anyone to join the call and receive some support as they are working through their mapping projects. There will be at least one GCDI Fellow on the call who can answer questions and help you …

Sound Studies and Methods Working Group

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This fall the Sound Studies and Methods Working Group will be holding monthly co-working sessions on Zoom. Given the recent resurgence in interest in sound studies across the Graduate Center, we’re thrilled to bring the community together once more! We are excited to mobilize this community and help each other out! Our first meeting is …

Intro to RQDA (R Qualitative Data Analysis) Workshop

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R is a powerful tool to analyze statistical data. In recent years R has gained popularity because the software is open source and powerful in data analysis and machine learning. However, evaluators and researchers do not exclusively use quantitative data. It is possible to perform qualitative analysis in R. This workshop provides users a basic …

Talking to People in Archives, A Conversation About Human Access

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The Digital Archives Research Collective (DARC) is organizing a virtual meeting on the topic of remote human access. The first DARC Open Meeting of the semester will explore ways to connect researchers with archivists and librarians, given the current personal and physical constraints which are disrupting access to resources. This meeting will emphasize the process …

Intro to Making an Interactive Map

Interactive maps have increasingly become an effective tool for communicating one's research and engaging a broad audience. This workshop will introduce you to the basics of making an interactive map that can be shared and embedded in a website. No mapping experience is necessary. This hands-on workshop will take place live over Zoom. <<REGISTER HERE>> …

Working with HathiTrust Data

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The HathiTrust Digital Library is the largest set of digitized books in the world. Its collection spans over 17 million items and is composed of the combined collections of several major research libraries in the United States. In addition to making a significant amount of its collection freely available online, HathiTrust also provides cloud-based research …