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 …
Building Your First Database in SQL – GC Digital Fellows
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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 …
Finding the Perfect OCR – GC Digital Fellows
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 …
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 …
How the GCDI Digital Research Institute Planted the Seed that Allowed My Research and Career Goals to Grow in New Directions – GC Digital Fellows
This week’s Tagging the Tower post is written by GC Digital Fellow Rebecca Kreisel and it covers her thoughts and experiences at the January 2021 GC Digital Research Institute. Rebecca …
Throwback Thursday: Illuminating the Challenges of Web Design (2014) by Laura Kane
The GC Digital Fellows program goes back more than a decade. During these many years, dozens of fellows have authored hundreds of blog posts discussing digital tools and chasing new …
Apply for the GC Digital Research Institute 2023
The GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI) Jan 18th – Jan 20th and Jan 23rd – Jan 24th, 2023 Application due: Monday November 28th, 2022, at 11:59pm. Are you interested in …
What is WordPress? – GC Digital Fellows
This week’s Tagging the Tower post comes from GC Digital Fellow Silvia Rivera Alfaro. Silvia’s post provides an introduction and overview of WordPress, one of the world’s most popular website …
Creating Geographic Estimates with the IPUMS CPS Online Data Analysis System | At These Coordinates
This post covers how to use the IPUMS CPS Online Data Analysis System to generate summary data from the US Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a …
How to Update R using the “installr” Package – GC Digital Fellows
In this helpful post, Digital Fellow Yuxiao Luo provides a nifty new way to update R on Windows computers. This new method for updating R will be available for Mac …
