A few weeks ago my partner shared a TED Talk with me that changed how I conceptualize data communication. In it Dr. Wanda Diaz Merced, an astronomer who lost her …
Tag: Visualization
Intro to Mapping using QGIS
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are an essential digital tool for the creation and analysis of maps and geographic data, as it offers a wide array of analysis possibilities to scholars …
GCDI and Comp Sci Visualization Seminar: The Book of Circles
Tomorrow the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives and the Computer Science department welcome designer, author, lecturer based in NYC, RSA fellow, TED speaker, founder of Visual Complexity, design lead @Google Manuel …
GCDI and Comp Sci Visualization Seminar: How to See 1 Billion Images?
Today the visualization seminar cohosted by the Computer Science Department and the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives dives deep into the humanities with a talk on visualizing culture by Graduate Center …
GCDI and Comp Sci Visualization Seminar: Computational Data Analysis
What is computational data analysis? Any analysis done via computer. If that seems absurdly broad, that’s because it is. Data is itself a broad catch all for any collection of …
GCDI & Comp Sci Visualization Seminar: Intro to Viz in Python
“There is no excuse for failing to plot and look” – John W. Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis In collaboration with the Computer Science Department at The GC, the Graduate Center …
Interface to Face: Touching with Technology
I have always been a musician. From banging pots and pans on the kitchen floor as a toddler to mauling my first guitar at age 9, making music has been …
Digital Fellow: Micki Kaufman
Micki Kaufman is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of History at the Graduate Center. She received her B.A. in US History summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 2011. A …