Lev Manovich on Data Visualization Mon 9/23, 4:15pm-5:30pm, C415A: Lev Manovich (Graduate Center, CUNY) on Data Visualization

Speaker: Professor Lev Manovich (The Graduate Center, CUNY)   Title: How to see 2 million Instagram photos? Visualizing patterns in art, films, mass media, and user-generated content CUNY Data Mining Initiative Friday, September 27, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT)   Bio: Lev Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: …

David Mimno on Topic Modeling Please join CUNY DHI and the Digital Praxis Seminar for a talk by David Mimno on Topic Modeling with MALLET. This event will take place on Monday, September 30, 2013 from 4:15-5:30pm at the Graduate Center, CUNY in the 9th floor Skylight Room. Details are below – we look forward to seeing you there! …

Doug Eyman & Collin Brooke on DH and Rhetoric Doug Eyman (George Mason University) on “Digital Rhetoric and the Infrastructure of DH” and Collin Brooke (Syracuse University) on “Too Big to Scale? Culturomics and Crypto-Rhetorics”  Please join CUNY DHI and the Graduate Center Composition and Rhetoric Community (GCCRC) for a conversation about the intersection of …

Andrea Martínez Baracs Mexican Digital Library, BDMx Mexican National Council for Culture and the Arts Discussant Peter T. Johnson Princeton University While it is certainly good news that so many libraries, archives and academic centers in Mexico, the US and the world are engaged in large-scale efforts to digitize historical documents, the presentation of such …

Social Media and Academia: Creating Digital Research Communities Thursday, Oct.10, 6:30-8:30 pm, Room C196.02  This workshop will introduce various aspects of social media as solutions or initiatives for creating communities around research. We’ll explore how to use the CUNY Commons, WordPress, and Twitter to find or create online research communities across CUNY and other universities. This …

Workshop on Sequence Analysis and Traminer CUNY Data Mining Initiative Friday, October 11, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)   Workshop Leader: Alexis Gabadinho, University of Geneva   Description of Event: This is a free, one-day workshop on Sequence Analysis with focus on Traminer, an open-source data mining software available in "R." Participants will get an introduction …

Not sure which Citation Manager is right for you?! In this hands-on workshop, participants will receive an overview of citation managers, including those supported by the CUNY Graduate Center: Zotero and Refworks. For Beginners: those who have not yet chosen a citation manager for their research, or those interested in the basic principles of citation …

Come to learn about Refworks as a citation manager, how it can help you manage your resources, and act as an index for your citations throughout your academic career. An introduction for beginners to intermediate. 18 slots only. Tuesday, October 15th, 1:00pm – 2:00pm Room C196.03 RSVP to Shawnta Smith

Matthew Kirschenbaum on Word Processing Tues 10/15, 4:15pm-5:30pm, Room C204/C205: Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland) on “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing”