Category: Digital GC

Building Your First Database in SQL – GC Digital Fellows

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 …

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The GCDI Guide to Password Management – GC Digital Fellows

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 …

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Dissertation Futures (Monday, Mar 27th @ 1230pm – 2pm ONLINE)

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 …

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How to Organize Data for Maps – GC Digital Fellows

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 …

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