NOTE: This post is Part 1 in a two-part series that will help you begin exploring data in a spatialized way using ‘Social Explorer’. Part 2 will show you how …
Category: Resources
Which digital tool should I use?
It can sometimes be overwhelming to decide which of the legions of digital tools out there are good for any given task, especially when you haven’t yet built expertise in …
Organize your WordPress blog posts with the List Category Posts plugin!
Hey everyone! We’re finishing up spring break here at CUNY Graduate Center and in the spirit of spring cleaning (and organizing!) I wrote up this little how-to blog post to …
Exploring the local impact of the NEH – NEH Impact Index
Graduate Center Digital Initiatives is proud to share the NEH Impact Index. Recent budget proposals by the Trump administration have allocated zero funding to a number of independent federal agencies …
Visualizing NEH Open Data
NEH Open Data Shortly after the Trump administration announced its budget, the GC Digital Fellows dove into the Open Data from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to see what we …
Learning to program, for everybody
Every time I teach a Python workshop, I inevitably end up telling the story of my first month of Python programming. I started learning Python when I arrived at the …
The mostly non-STEM guide to data literacy
I got my hands on this very cool Titanic dataset that provides me with a list of passengers and a bunch of information about them, like their names, ages, ticket …
Docker in the classroom: Creating a virtual environment for instruction
On October 13, I led a workshop at the Graduate Center on databases. It was billed as the most fun you will ever have learning about databases. More importantly, it was …
Python resources
Last week, the Digital Fellows held a workshop on the Python programming language, and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP)program will be holding another in October. It seems like a …
Create Your (FREE) Website Using Github and Jekyll
Learn how to create and host your own website using Github and Jekyll
