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libraries, archives and academic centers in Mexico, the US and the world are engaged in large-scale efforts to digitize historical documents, the presentation of such …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”

Come to learn about Zotero 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. Wednesday, October 16th, 12pm – 1pm Room C196.03 RSVP with [email protected]

Cloud Storage: How to Keep Your Citations and Sources in the Same Place (While Not Losing Your Dissertation) Wednesday, Oct. 16, 6:30-8:30 pm, Room C196.03 This workshop will introduce digital storage, citation, and note taking tools with a focus on the best ways to organize and back up your research. We will cover a range …

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

Come to learn about Zotero 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. Wednesday, October 16th, 12pm – 1pm Room C196.03 RSVP with [email protected]

William Turkel on Physical Computing and the Humanities Mon 10/21, 4:15pm-5:30pm, Skylight Room (9100): William Turkel (Western University Ontario) on humanistic fabrication and physical computing   http://cunydhi-turkel.eventbrite.com/ The Hands-On Imperative The idea that “making is thinking,” as Richard Sennett puts it, has always had some place in the humanities.  Until recently, however, it was costly …

Mon, Oct 21, 6:30 - 8pm: George Otte "MOOCs and Other Hyped Disruptions" The GC Composition and Rhetoric Community is delighted to invite you to join us in GC room 5409 on Monday, October 21st from 6:30 - 8pm. George Otte (CUNY's Director of Academic Technology, Chief Academic Officer of the School of Professional Studies, and …

New Media Lab General Meeting The New Media Lab holds general meetings that are open to the Graduate Center community in addition to other less formal discussions that focus on individual projects.

Intro to ArcGIS This workshop will introduce the ArcMap user interface and the fundamentals of interacting with spatial datasets in ArcGIS mapping software. RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/pl5b6yv Tuesday, Oct. 22, 4-5.15 pm

Research Metrics for the Rest of Us- Come learn how scholarly output is measured (through impact factors, citation counts, h-index and more!) plus why it matters for you. RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/neb3uxj Tuesday, Oct. 22, 6.30-7.30

Establishing an Online Academic Identity Thursday, Oct 24, 6:30-8:30 pm, Room C196.02 The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with the WordPress platform while creating a digital academic identity on the CUNY Commons.  We will focus on the main design and content components of a WordPress site, including theme editing, managing content, plugin capability …

Featurizing Text: Converting Text into Predictors for Regression Analysis CUNY Data Mining Initiative Friday, October 25, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (EDT)   Speaker: Robert Stine, Wharton School at the Universtiy of Pennsylvania Bio: Robert Stine is Professor of Statistics in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research spans a variety of …

Twitter: Social Media Practicum Tuesday, 10/29-5-8pm. Register here. Instructor: Sandeep Junnarkar In this hands-on workshop, we’ll work with Twitter, taking the steps necessary to establish your academic brand presence on this social media platform. We’ll explore the following skills: Selecting an appropriate user ID or “handle” Creating a useful Twitter profile Writing style when limited to 140 …

Join Larry Smarr, founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), as he explores the future of the Internet and digital culture. The Institute develops next generation …

Organizing Your Research With Zotero: Creating a Digital Library Wednesday, Oct. 30, 6:30-8:30 pm, Room C196.02 This workshop will focus on the best practices for using Zotero, a kind of open-source …

Blogging: Social Media Practicum Friday 11/1, 1-4pm. Register here. Instructor: Sandeep Junnarkar This workshop takes academic attendees through the basic steps of establishing a blog — an online space to highlight their research and accomplishments. We’ll consider the merits of various free plug-and-play blogging platforms like WordPress.com and Tumblr. While each has its merits, we’ll delve into WordPress.com …