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Raspberry Pi

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

An introduction to the hardware & software of the Raspberry Pi, a small, credit-card sized computer useful for teaching & learning computing, programming, digital design and electronics. This workshop will follow the process of setting up a Raspberry Pi, from box to working computer, and cover several small computing projects. This workshops is best suited […]

Lightning Talks 2017

A integral part of the NYCDH agenda is supporting and building our community! To foster this initiative, the kick off event for NYCDH Week features a session of three-and-a-half minute (3:30) lightning talks that showcase a wide range of DH work done across the NYCDH community. Following is a list of presenters for this year:

NYCDH Week 2017 Kickoff Gathering

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

Our big event! A full day of networking, lightning talks, an NYCDH roundtable, and a keynote delivered by our first NYCDH Award winner will be followed by a social outing at a local watering hole. This is your opportunity to see old friends, meet new ones and get to know your New York City Digital Humanities […]

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Digibar!

Liberty Bar 29 W. 35th St., New York, NY, United States

Join the NYCDH gang at The Liberty Bar (29 W. 35th St., New York, NY 10001) for some food, folks, and fun. Banter, network, collaborate, or scheme; it's all easier with a frosty beverage or tasty cocktail! Check out the space here: http://youvis.it/nn6Hf1

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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Introduction to Scalar

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

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform developed by the University of Southern California that’s designed to make it easy for authors (faculty or students) to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Projects that are best suited to Scalar are media rich and able to take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital […]

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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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Intro to the Command Line

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

Learn how to use the command line to perform basic tasks. We’ll begin by discussing why humanists would want to learn something so technical, then jump into learning how to create and edit files, and also learn some tricks for text analysis. Knowledge of the command line can be applied in many contexts, including several […]

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Sampling for the Digital Humanities

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

Do you have a huge archive to analyze? Do you want to find trends in a large data set? Are your methods time-consuming and difficult to automate? Sampling may be the answer! Learn how sampling can save you time and energy, why representative sampling matters, how to pick random subsets of your data, and how […]

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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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Advanced Omeka

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

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER Building on the Introduction to Omeka workshop, this workshop will show you how to gain greater control of your Omeka installation. Participants will learn the difference between different deployments of Omeka, how to manage your own hosted Omeka installation, and how to use plugins, themes, HTML, CSS, and PHP to customize […]

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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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Advanced Text Analysis with SpaCy and Scikit-Learn

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

This workshop is an introduction to the Python module SpaCy, a new library for natural language processing written in Cython, and Scikit-Learn, a library for machine learning. It is intended for intermediate to advanced Python programmers who are familiar with natural language processing suites such as the NLTK, and who are ready to explore next-generation […]

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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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