Building Your First Database in SQL Creating a database is a fundamental skill for most social science and humanities researchers, and PostgreSQL is an excellent choice to get started with SQL. PostgreSQL, a robust, free, open-source relational database management system, serves as a versatile tool for various research applications. For example, SQL is especially useful …
Opening our house, opening our lab! On September 6th, friendly conversations about digital tools, methods, and opportunities at the GC lit up room 7414 at the GC. For the second time since remote learning started during COVID-19, Digital Fellows and GCDI had the opportunity to open the lab in person to welcome new GC students …
The GCDI Guide to Password Management Graduate Center students! Don’t sleep on the absurd number of usernames and passwords you will be required to remember! Think you can just keep it all in your brain, your phone notes, or a piece of paper in your wallet? Don’t kid yourself: the average person in 2023 has …
Please join the GC Digital Fellows, GCDI, and the M.S. in Data Analysis and Visualization in welcoming Dr. Jo Lukito (UT Austin) for a conversation focused on practical strategies for researching social media today. The event will take place virtually on Zoom on May 3rd from 4 – 5pm ET. You can register for …
CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students are known for pushing the boundaries of what a dissertation could be and alumni often speak to the value of doing scholarship in alternative, digital formats. Some examples of GC alumni’s dissertations include Gregory T. Donovan’s MyDigitalFootprint.ORG, Christina Katapodis’ The Walden Soundscape, Jessie Merandy’s Vanishing Leaves, and Kalle Westerling’s Gayboys …
Are you looking for a fellowship that will challenge you to enhance your existing technical skills? Do you enjoy working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team? Do you like working with students, faculty, and staff to help them learn new digital tools and methods? If learning new open source technologies and helping others to integrate them …
In this week’s Tagging the Tower post, GC Digital Fellow Leanne Fan explains how to extract text from images. If you’ve ever saved a photograph of a newspaper or book and you really wanted to copy and select the text in that image, you would find yourself in a sticky situation. Leanne’s post addresses the …
In his most recent blog post, GC Digital Fellow Rilquer Mascarenhas provides an extremely useful guide to organizing data for making maps. This is a very useful post for people looking to better understand how to blend data visualization with mapping. Rilquer provides a number of essential tips and necessary background to get you started …
Hello all! I hope you had a restful Thanksgiving break. We’re back with another busy week at GC Digital Initiatives! I want to begin this week’s post by highlighting our upcoming workshop Plugging into APIs, taking place this Friday 12/02. We will also be hosting the GIS user-group meetings this week. Moreover, you won’t want …
