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 …
Finding the Perfect OCR – GC Digital Fellows
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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 …
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 …
Reading Documentation: A Practical Approach for Beginners – GC Digital Fellows
In this Tagging the Tower post, GC Digital Fellow Zachary Lloyd discusses the difficulties of reading software documentation. Zachary recognizes the “overwhelming, large, complex, and confusing” nature of documentation and …
The Right to Repair: Why We Should be Given the Information and Tools to Repair our Personal Electronics – GC Digital Fellows
In this post from the Tagging the Tower blog, GC Digital Fellow Sam O’Hana discuss the importance of the right to repair, a growing international movement that advocates for more …
