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 …
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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 …
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 …
