There are two main options for creating content on WordPress: pages and posts. Though they look similar, there is an important difference in whether the content is dynamic or static. …
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Using raster spatial data in R
A lot of talk is given to spatial data in the vector format (i.e., points, lines and polygons) when making maps. After all, they serve as the actual baseline for …
When Servers Burn: The Next Great Fire At Alexandria
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” – Milan Kundera I was recently talking with a medievalist in the Graduate Center’s English program, Chris …
Spring is in the air! Welcome back from GCDI and the Digital Fellows!
Welcome back for the spring semester! The Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and GC Digital Fellows have been hard at work developing programming, events, workshops, and opportunities to help you …
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 …
Finding the Perfect OCR
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Apple (just kidding) I attempted many different solutions to convert photos of news articles into machine-readable text, until I found something that …
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 …
This Week @ GCDI
Hello all! I hope you had a restful Thanksgiving break. We’re back with another busy week at GC Digital Initiatives! I want to begin this week’s post by highlighting our …
How to Organize Data for Maps
As a form of data visualization, mapping is an informative way to explore and communicate our data and results. However, transforming information into a map-ready dataset is not always an …
This Week @ GCDI
Welcome to another packed week at GC Digital Initiatives! I want to begin this week’s post by highlighting our upcoming workshop Mapping Your Way Into Mapping: An Intro to GIS …
