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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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
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 …
From Dataphobe to Dataphile
Picture this: It’s November 2020. COVID is surging. We are all still stuck indoors. No vaccines are yet available. It’s total doom! Okay….maybe you’d rather not think about that time …
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 …
What is WordPress?
Today websites have a central place in academic life. Many scholars create websites for research, the courses they teach, and their personal online identities. Thus, having some knowledge of how …
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 …
How to Update R from R using the “installr” Package
Before we start R is a powerful statistical/data science programming language. It is also an open-source program that requires regular updates to stay functionally up-to-date. There are different ways of …
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 …
