Generously supported by the Provost’s Office, the GC Digital Research Institute guides an interdisciplinary cohort of graduate students, faculty, and instructional staff as they learn foundational technical skills that can aid–and even extend–their scholarship. Faculty who have participated in past GCDRIs have told us: “The GC DRI presented hugely valuable tools that I plan to continue …
GC Digital Fellow Stefano Morello provides a helpful and succinct overview of Omeka, a widely used content management platform. Reflecting on his recent “Introduction to Omeka” workshop held at the GC, Stefano asks and answers questions relating to designing exhibits, organizing content, and using Omeka plugins. A very helpful primer for all looking to get …
“That’s how much influence you can have over a platform with a different type of medium. For a couple of years, I was a voyeur on the Commons. In that time, I noticed there really wasn’t a platform for all kinds of experimental digital art and media art where you can create a platform for …
When proceeding with a digital project, it seems that a lot of emphasis is generally placed on learning the ins and outs of using the tool or method. Certainly, this is important. However, this is but one planning consideration among many. Additionally, there is much more to know about using a particular tool or method …
Sharing the vision behind the GCDI’s longstanding Python Users’ Group (PUG), current Digital Fellow Rafael Davis Portella invites novices and experts alike to join in on the fun and become a part of the group! With regular meetings and an active community PUG can help you learn python and work through issues you may encounter …
When I started my oral history project two years ago, I knew very little about microphones and recorders. I knew I had to get a decent quality recording so that folx can hear my narrators but beyond that I was at a loss. Conversations with other graduate students interested in working with in-person interviews revealed …
This issue is probably more common than I think. Over the past year I’ve been working on an ambitious digital project: to modify a digital annotation tool, hypothes.is, so that the user can highlight text in multiple colors, rather than just yellow. While that doesn’t sound very ambitious, the theoretical underpinnings of the project and …
The “Data for Public Good” Project Application deadline: Friday, November 15, 2019 For the second time, GC Digital Initiatives is accepting applications from GC students who have achieved an introductory fluency with the Python programming language to participate in a semester-long collaborative project designed to improve their familiarity and comfort with programming, while at the …
Finding Your Way To R We think R is a great place to start your data science journey because it is an environment designed for data science. R is not just a programming language, but it is also an interactive ecosystem including a runtime, libraries, development environments, and extensions. All these features help you think …
For many PhD students, the topic you came to study as a first year is not the topic you end up working on for your dissertation. And for some of these students, the subfield you specialize in during your coursework is not the subfield your work ends up falling within. I was one of these …
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