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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 …
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 …
Library Conserves, Digitizes Rare Photographs Including Harriet Tubman Portrait | Library of Congress
This post from the Library of Congress discusses the acquisition and digitization of an album containing 48 rare photographs dating to the 1860s, including a previously unrecorded portrait of Harriet …
Getting the Most Out of GCDI Workshops
Each semester, the Digital Fellows offer a series of workshops focused on developing practical digital skills and concepts, freely available to members of the Graduate Center community. Because many of …