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 …
The Open Pedagogy fellowships are a fantastic opportunity for GC doctoral students to enhance their teaching practices and learn about Open Educational Resources (OER). The Library seeks applications for up to 13 Open Pedagogy Fellows for the Spring 2020 semester, each carrying a $2000 stipend. The Fellowship experience will enhance participants’ understanding of open pedagogy …
Celebrating the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 in print and on the open-access Manifold platform, this event brings together a number of contributors to discuss their work. A roundtable and Q&A will follow the presentations. This event will be hosted at The Graduate Center’s English Student Lounge (GC RM 4406) on the …
Applications for Provost’s Digital Innovation Grants – also known as PDIGs – are open! If you’re working on a digital project, planning to, or hoping to attend a short course or workshop to learn a skill that may support a current or future digital project, then this grant opportunity is for you! PDIGs are broken …
There are a lot of insects in the world. Like a lot a lot. Recent estimates put the number of insect species at a whopping 5.5 million. Only about a million have names, leaving the other 4.5 million or so species undescribed. To put this into context, there are 8,053 described amphibian species and the …
By: Carmela Muzio Dormani Salsa is rhythm and melody, represents history and evolution, and encourages both individual expression and interpersonal connection. In the 1960s and 70s salsa music was, “the unmistakable voice of the Puerto Rican barrio” (Duany, 1984) representing, “a powerfully vibrant and uncontainable cultural expression” (Washburne, 2008). Today, it is the dancers …
By: Yoshiko Oka I was selected as one of the recipients of the Provost’s Digital Innovation Training Grant for the 2018-2019 academic year, which enabled me to attend the “Python and Machine Learning Bootcamp Series” at the General Assembly. This blog post is about my experience with this program. As a doctorate student in economics, …
Training Course: Data Science with Python Pandas 101 by: Yu-Hsuan Liu I recommend that people who want to improve their Python skills further and are interested in data science could take this class. After taking this class, I think this class is for basic to medium level python users. Persons who want to take this …
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