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 …

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 …

Spotlight: Organizing Your Research With Evernote, Dropbox, and Zotero

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

This workshop will act as a Part II to our March 12 workshop, a broad overview of available tools for research management. In this workshop, we will focus on the best practices for using three specific tools: Zotero, Evernote, and Dropbox. Samples from Graduate Center students who use these tools in their own work will …

New Media Lab general meeting

Room 7388.01 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

NML welcomes all GC students and faculty to its monthly meeting to discuss topics related to our digital projects and to see current students presentations. One of the day's presenters: Sam Freeman, Computer Science Sam will discuss his past and upcoming digital work at the Lab as it relates to his dissertation. http://newmedialab.cuny.edu/people/graduate-students-faculty/samwell-freeman/ http://newmedialab.cuny.edu/projects/current-projects/welike2draw/

Anne Balsamo, The New School

Anne Balsamo (The New School) Title TBA Graduate Center, CUNY, Room TBA Anne Balsamo is Dean of the School of Media Studies and Professor of Media Studies at The New School for Public Engagement. She is a national leader in media studies, scholar and media-maker whose work links cultural studies, digital humanities, and interactive media. …

Automated Behavior Detection From Log Files: A Workshop on Educational Data Mining Research

Speaker: Ryan Baker, Teacher's College Synopsis: Professor Baker will explore how data mining methods can be used in educational research. Using examples from his own research, Dr. Baker will show how data mining has been used to detect different student behaviors. This workshop will also show how data mining can be a predictive and interpretative …