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Understanding Numbers: Basics of Statistical Literacy

School of Information, Pratt Institute, Room 609 Pratt Institute, School of Information, 144 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10011, Room 609

Math and statistics bring about fear and apprehension in many humanities and social science students, yet these skills are often required for research and effective evidence-based practice. This workshop aims to introduce humanities students to basic statistical concepts, various types of qualitative data, and methods of data analysis. The workshop will be taught by a […]

Typography for [Digital] Humanists

Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus, Room TBA 113 W 60th Street, New York, United States

“Typography is what language looks like.” This quote by educator and designer Ellen Lupton has been used countless times to explain how typography, the arrangement and use of type, permeates our visual landscape, from the printed page to screens to physical environments. Those who work in the digital humanities are called upon to make typographic […]

Easy-to-use Digital Tools for Film Analysis

Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

A workshop focusing on demonstrations and applications of easy-to-use platforms for film/audiovisual media analysis, such as video annotation software, and interactive image annotation tools like Thinglink. In addition to brief how-to tutorials, this workshop will also give examples of how to productively incorporate those tools into multimedia assignments for Film and Media Studies courses. A […]

Visualizing Qualitative Data

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United States

This presentation will introduce attendees to the fundamentals of Nvivo queries and analyses. Participants will be shown to easy-to-follow demonstrations of NVivo functions that allow users to visualize information from data sources such as surveys, literature reviews, and interview transcripts. The workshop is geared toward beginners who have had little previous exposure to NVivo. Attendees […]

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Access: Bridging the Continuum between Digital Archival Management and the Public Interface

NYU Center for Humanities, Classroom 14 University Place, New York, NY, United States

With Museums and Libraries rapidly digitizing their collections and making them available to the public, educational scaffolding and digital access programming have become critical to the understanding and approachability of archival contents. Learn to foster a deeper connection between the public and a digitized archive of a cultural institution through thoughtfully constructed digital programs. Follow [...]

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Introduction to Security and Privacy for Researchers

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United States

Learn the basic to intermediate steps that you can take to protect yourself against malicious agents, government surveillance and other threats. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptop

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Introduction to Humanities Commons

NYU Center for Humanities, Classroom 14 University Place, New York, NY, United States

Imagine a humanities network with the sharing power of Academia.edu, the archival quality of an institutional repository, and a commitment to using and contributing to open source software. Now imagine that this network is not-for-profit. It doesn’t want to sell your data or generate profit from your intellectual property. That’s Humanities Commons. Humanities Commons wants […]

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Introduction to Mapping with QGIS

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United States

This workshop will introduce participants to creating static maps using QGIS. QGIS is an open source mapping software that allows users to create maps and analyze data with a spatial component. This workshop is intended for those new to GIS who want to get started creating maps. By the end of this session, participants will […]

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Islandora Working Group

The New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue , New York, NY, United States

If you’re working in Islandora, thinking about it, or just curious, then join us for a new Islandora Working Group! Building on an active Islandora community, the Islandora Working Group is an opportunity to bring together local New York City information professionals working to create and build cultural heritage collections using Islandora. It is the […]

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Preserving Performance

American Jewish Historical Society at the Center For Jewish History, 5th Floor Conference Room 15 W 16th St, 5th Floor Conference Room, New York, NY, United States

After a show closes, how you handle and store materials can mean the difference between preserving theatre legacy and irreversible damage and loss. This workshop introduces artists to the process of archiving their work, with tips on selection, storage and preservation. The American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP) is a collaboration of archivists, dramaturgs, and academics […]

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Strategies for Interactive and Immersive Dance

Kitchen Table Coders 274 Morgan, Brooklyn, NY, United States

We will discuss strategies for creating experiences and performances that cross the domains of software, sound, and dance while respecting each medium's idiosyncratic strengths. D. Schmüdde will provide a brief overview of the hardware, software, and original code he wrote to track bodies and manipulate sound in "Borderless." Co-creator Kim Burgas will discuss the process […]

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Machine Learning for the Study of Literary and Historical Corpora

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United States

Depending on participant interest, this workshop will discuss either (1) principal component analysis or (2) word embeddings as a technique for exploring large digitized corpora, with particular emphasis on applications to literary and historical study. The workshop will be conducted using Jupyter notebooks in Python. No prior experience with Python is assumed, but elementary knowledge […]

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Intro to Networks

Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 606 144 West 14th, New York, NY, United States

This workshop will introduce participants to designing a network study, including data collection, analysis, and visualization. After an overview of network studies in the humanities, students will get hands on experience using Gephi, a free and open source software for network analysis and visualization. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptop with Gephi installed

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Making a Minimal Digital Edition of a Historical or Literary Text

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United States

Learn how to make and publish an edition online of your source materials using Ed: A Jekyll theme, designed for documentary editors. Skill Level Beginner/Intermediate Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Mac or Linux Laptop

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Machine Learning: A Primer

CUNY Graduate Center, Room C196.05 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States

In recent years we have seen words related to recent developments in computer science and technology, like machine learning, artificial intelligence or neural networks, be used increasingly in diverse fields of research and of the society in general. This workshop will survey basic concepts of machine learning. No specific background is expected. The goal is […]

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Introduction to FromThePage

Fordham Lincoln Center, Room LL 306 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

FromThePage is an open-source platform for collaborating on texts, from simple, plain-text transcriptions to complex bilingual digital editions. The workshop will outline project steps, from collecting raw text images to producing searchable, exportable, indexed digital editions. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment & Software requirements Laptop

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Building Mobile Narratives and Games Using ARIS

Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, United States

ARIS is a user-friendly, open-source platform for creating and playing mobile games, tours and interactive stories. Using GPS and QR Codes, ARIS players experience a hybrid world of virtual interactive characters, items, and media placed in physical space. Visitor's will be required to sign in at the security desk. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements […]

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Making Maps into Webmaps with Leaflet.js

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United States

The workshop will introduce participants to one method of turning a map into a Web Map. The primary difference between a static map and a web map (in addition to the fact that one is on the web) is interactivity. We expect webmaps to respond to users by showing popups, highlighting features, or by being […]

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Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to Build a DH Corpus

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

Students will learn how to use common OCR software, including Tesseract and ABBYY Finereader, to build the text corpora they need to for common DH methods such as text mining, topic modeling, bibliographic visualizations, and text-as-data analyses. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements None

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Sustaining and Growing your DH Projects

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United States

What does it take for a DH project to go from concept to community treasure? While some DH projects are purely experimental, many project leaders are eager to see their work grow and develop over time and become useful to a significant community of scholars and students. This workshop will introduce digital project leaders to […]

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Physical Computing 101 with Arduino

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join us for this absolutely no-experience necessary workshop to introduce you to the basics of using Arduino, an open-source hardware and software prototyping platform, so you can begin to consider and develop your own projects. In this course, we'll use critical experimentation as a way to think about interactivity in our computational world. *Room: TBA [...]

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Experimenting with DH: A Beginner’s Workshop

Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

For the DH-curious, this workshop will cover finding and arranging open access historical data for experimentation with visualization tools. Tips and tricks for searching and extracting data from the Internet Archive and the HathiTrust Digital Library will be demonstrated, along with sharing best practices for organizing different types of data. Participants will experiment with the […]

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Intro to Omeka

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. This workshop will explain the basics of why and when to use Omeka and include a walkthrough of how to use Omeka to manage online collections and create digital […]

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Planning and Prototyping a Digital Humanities Project

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United States

In this workshop, we'll cover how to plan and prototype an online, interactive digital humanities storytelling project. The planning phase will include rapid sketching, user experience methods, and two ways of working: from big picture to details, and details to the big picture. We'll investigate which method is appropriate in typical digital humanities circumstances. The […]

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Design-Based Thinking for Humanists

NYU, Great Room 19 University Place, New York, NY, United States

Iterative. Practical. Critical. Accessible. Sound familiar? Design-based thinking and DH are a natural fit. This workshop will offer you tips for increasing creativity and leveraging design strategies in your humanities research. Join us to learn best practices for using design thinking to create engaging experiences, build new audiences, encourage conversation and inquiry, and boost the […]

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Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

Interested in incorporating social media content into your qualitative research project?  This workshop will introduce the basics of using small-scale web scraping of social media for qualitative analysis.   Using NCapture, a web browser extension, and NVivo, a qualitative analysis software package, this session will focus on methods to incorporate the context from web pages, online […]

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Making the Most of Text: Using a Text-only Workflow with Markdown and Pandoc

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United States

Participants will be introduced to the reasons for considering a move from proprietary software like MS Word to text-based workflow, including preventing future obsolescence. They will get an introduction to the simple and popular markup language Markdown. They will learn to create word-processing documents with headers, links, images, tables and footnotes. Finally they will be […]

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Digital Mapping for JavaScript Novices

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United States

JavaScript is one of the most popular and ubiquitous programming languages in history. Because every web browser speaks it, it's worth knowing at least a little bit when doing any kind of web-based DH work. This workshop takes JavaScript novices (and those with more experience) and introduces them the language with the goal of making an interactive web map using […]

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Dealing with Messy Data using Open Refine and other tools

Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 612 144 West 14th, New York, NY, United States

The raw data received or compiled for an analysis project is often messy, inconsistent, or in the wrong format. Learn how to use Google Open Refine and Microsoft Excel to transform data into the structure you need to conduct analysis and successfully complete your project. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptop with Open [...]

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Introduction to Information Security

CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

This workshop will cover issues of data security. What does it mean for data to be "secure"? What is data encryption? How might you begin to protect yourself from data surveillance, reconsider data storage, and think about personal privacy in an age of internet research? This workshop is designed for someone who has never really […]

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The Pedagogy of DH: A Conversation

NYU Center for Humanities, Classroom 14 University Place, New York, NY, United States

This conversation/workshop will be open to anyone who teaches or is interested in teaching courses where DH as a field is the central topic. Topics may include, structuring syllabi, digital teaching platforms, tool integration, classroom needs, organizing subfields or subcategories of DH, DH in relation to other disciplines, seminal texts and tools, issues in DH, […]

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Social Network Analysis for Humanities

CUNY Graduate Center, Room C196.05 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States

Present the basics of Social Network Analysis (SNA): graphs, metrics, filtering, grouping; introduce NodeXL, Excel-based tool for SNA; do a couple of examples: (characters in Les Miserables; wordnet). Skill Level Familiarity with Excel Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptops  

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Multimedia Film Analysis

Tisch School of the Arts: Cinema Studies Department, Room 652 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

A workshop focusing on demonstrations and applications of easy-to-use tools for film/audiovisual media analysis, such as video annotation software and interactive image annotation tools. In addition to brief how-to tutorials, this workshop will also give examples of how to productively incorporate those tools into multimedia assignments for Film and Media Studies courses. Skill Level Beginner/ […]

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How do I Get My Catalogue Raisonné Online?

Frick Art Reference Library 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY, United States

Compiled by scholars to assemble the disparate works of art that constitute the oeuvre of a particular artist alongside provenance, exhibition, and bibliographic information, Catalogues Raisonné are essential tools in the study of art history. They are, however, often outdated as soon as they appear in print, as new works of art appear on the […]

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Sensing Urban Noise

NYU Steinhardt School, 6th Floor Conference Room 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY

Whether you're an expert maker, artist, or simply interested in learning how easy it is to get up and running in sensing, mapping, and using soundscape data for music creation, please join the Citygram-IBM hosted Noisescapes Workshop & Hackathon by bringing your laptop/notebook computer. We will provide the rest: access to NYU's Citygram's API to [...]

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The Pedagogical Value of Social Annotation

Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

Come and learn how Fordham University faculty are using social annotation (Lacuna Stories) to enhance student comprehension and engagement with course texts. Explore a reading using Lacuna Stories in this workshop, and see how this tool from Stanford University can help faculty better prepare for class discussions, and assess student engagement with course texts. LEVEL: […]

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Share and Preserve Your Work on Humanities Commons

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United States

Humanities Commons combines a scholarly network and open access repository—allowing you to share your work with groups and on your profile, while also ensuring long-term preservation in a Fedora repository built in partnership with Columbia University’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. The CORE repository accepts a wide range of item types and file types, […]

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Action Learning

The New York Public Library, 39th Street Offices, 5th Floor Leadership Education Center 455 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Action Learning enforces the power of questions through a very simple, yet highly effective and challenging method. In Action Learning, a group of 6-8 participants develops leadership skills, by working together on solving a complex problem. Questions are the driving force of Action Learning, and empower participants to discover the root of problems and to […]

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Introduction to the Map Warper

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Sourt Court Classroom B 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The New York Public Library is home to one of the world’s premier map collections, including 433,000 sheet maps and 20,000 books and atlases published between the 15th and 21st centuries. Its Map Warper (available at maps.nypl.org) is a free online crowdsourcing tool that enables both librarians and the general public to align digital images […]

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Scalar: Writing for the 21st Century

Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

Learn how to create a basic Scalar book in this hands-on workshop. We will create and integrate multiple pages, tags, paths, multimedia, and (of course) annotations. See why this open source tool from the University of Southern California is so well adapted to contemporary student and scholarly multimedia projects. LEVEL: Beginner NOTES: You must create […]

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