When working with programming languages and software libraries, you have likely been referred to “the documentation” for help with understanding how to use a tool. However, as you may have …
Category: Tagging the Tower
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The Right to Repair: Taking the Tools to Renew 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 …
The Right to Repair: Why We Should be Given the Information and Tools to Repair our Personal Electronics
“[…] the change may be illustrated by the difference between a craftsman of the old type, who selected the proper tool for a delicate piece of work, and the worker …
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 …
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 …
GCDI Welcomes You to the Fall Semester!
Welcome back for the fall 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 …
Introduction to R Markdown
Before we start This is a short tutorial to discuss the basic Markdown syntax and essential features of R Markdown to an R user with no experience in Markdown. `R` …
Introduction to CSS Keyframes (Animations)
Introduction to Keyframes If, like me, you once enjoyed playing around with the defunct Adobe Flash software, or if you have any general graphic design, animation, or video editing experience, …
Recap: Beginner’s Guide to Web-Scraping
This post may be useful to folx interested in starting a web-scraping workshop but not sure where to begin. In this post, I provide a recap of the Beginner’s Guide …
