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  • Analyzing Twitter Data for Beginners

    Fordham Lincoln Center, Quinn Library Room 234 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Interested in analyzing conversations on Twitter but don’t know where to start? This workshop will demonstrate how to use TAGS <https://tags.hawksey.info/get-tags/>, an open source tool developed by Martin Hawksey to collect and visualize Twitter data as it happens. Aimed at novice users, this session will experiment with small datasets generated from Twitter conversations under specific [...]

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  • How To Set Up a Web Server for Teaching and Research

    DigitalOcean 101 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, United States

    This workshop will go over how to complete an initial Linux server setup for use with the web. We will go over security, firewalls, HTTPS, and high availability. Administering one’s own server rather than relying on managed web hosting companies empowers researchers, teachers, and students by providing them with complete control over their web assets. [...]

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  • ARIES (Art Research Exploration Space)

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

    Working with Dr. Claudio Silva and Dr. Lhaylla Crissaff at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering, we have designed a prototype for a system we have dubbed ARIES for ARt Image Exploration Space. Aries is an interactive image manipulation system that allows for the exploration and organization of fine art images (of paintings, drawings, [...]

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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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  • How to Make Your Humanities Course More Digital: The Syllabus Re-design

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

    One of the most valuable tools in any course is the syllabus as it establishes the first connection between teachers and students, which also means the syllabus can set the course tone and create the impression of whether the course will a success or failure. A good, concise syllabus can answer many of the initial [...]

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  • R for Text Analysis

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

    In this workshop, we will use R for text analysis, with a focus on the Tidy Text approach within the Tidytext framework. Your insights will be visualized and can also be turned into an interactive without any web coding skills, using Shiny R. The workshop is open to anyone with an interest in this topic. [...]

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  • Life of a Gothic Cathedral: An Interactive Experience

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

    Our new website, Life of a Gothic Cathedral: Notre-Dame of Amiens 1220-1530 is intended to change the way we understand and teach the cathedral: it was designed especially for use in the Core Curriculum. This session will be a demonstration of how the website allows you to experience Amiens Cathedral not just as a thing [...]

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  • Introduction to Omeka

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

    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 exhibitions. LEVEL: Beginner NOTES: [...]

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  • Planning and Prototyping a Digital Humanities Project

    Pace University, 163 William Street, Room 1103 163 William St., New York

    For this workshop, I'm going to introduce three tools for prototyping a Digital Humanities Project for interaction. IDEA & FORM We'll introduce visual encoding methods, user-centered prototyping methods, and organizing principle for surveying the landscape and asking questions about your information. IDIOM We'll look at common interactive patterns. We'll use the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra to [...]

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  • Introduction to Minimal Computing

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

    In this workshop we will introduce you to minimal computing concepts in general, and Jekyll and GitHub Pages in particular. Given our political & economic vulnerabilities, and the imminence of the anthropocene, several scholars/technologists have begun to design different workflows and tech for producing several genres of digital humanities that seek the essentials in a [...]

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  • Advanced Omeka

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

    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 your collections and exhibitions. [...]

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  • Programming with R

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

    R has become an indispensable tool for academics in a range of disciplines for analyzing data. Many users come to it though with limited programming experience which can often lead to many more headaches than anyone should reasonably suffer. This workshop attempts to make R a bit less painful. Fortunately the past few years have [...]

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  • Digital and Spatial Study of Mosques: Xinjiang and Ningxia of China as Case Studies

    Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105 163 William St., New York, NY, United States

    Different from conventional research methods, spatial study is designed to apply GIS to study space, time and mapping, all of which are valuable in analyzing religious institutions, sites and locations. Supported by multiple spatial, digital and statistical methods, this workshop selects eight cities and prefectures in China to examine the Islamic mosques based on accessible [...]

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  • Introduction to Islandora

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

    Islandora is an open-source software framework used by cultural institutions to create and share digital collections.  The New York City Islandora Working Group (NYCIslandora) is composed of members in the local New York City area that currently use Islandora or are considering it for the future. NYCIslandora will present an introductory workshop on Islandora for [...]

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  • Analyzing Musical Performances with AMPACT

    NYU, Education Building, 6th Floor Conference Room 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Come and learn about the process of analyzing musical performances both in general and using the MATLAB-based Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT). The workshop will primarily focus on extracting performance data for audio recordings for which is a corresponding musical score is available, but will also consider workarounds for audio without a corresponding score. [...]

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  • Simple JavaScript Mapping

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

    A gentle introduction to JavaScript and manipulating webpages with the goal of making a map in Leaflet. LEVEL: Beginner NOTES: Bringing a personal laptop is suggested.

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  • Teaching with/on Scalar

    Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105 163 William St., New York, NY, United States

    A hands-on overview of Scalar, a free, online platform designed for creating digital editions. This workshop will showcase and discuss examples of textbooks created on Scalar, offer a quick tutorial on the basics of using Scalar (pages, paths, adding users, tagging, adding images) and offer suggestions for how to incorporate this tool in the classroom. [...]

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  • Experimenting with Locative Media/ AR

    Tisch School of the Arts: Cinema Studies Department, Room 670 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    This workshop will cover ways of incorporating locative media (such as Augmented Reality [AR] apps and Geographic Information System [GIS] platforms) into teaching. The workshop will be partly hands-on, demonstrating some easy-to-use AR and GIS tools, and partly discursive, illustrating collaborative student projects from Film and Media Studies courses to explore the pedagogical potential of [...]

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  • Word Embeddings: Can Vectors Encode Meaning?

    Columbia University, CEPSR, Room 620 530 West 120th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Word embeddings, or vector representations of words, are commonly used in computer science to work with and analyze text. They are particularly useful as a powerful off-the-shelf tool when using open-source word embeddings previously generated by Google, Facebook, or other technology companies based on web crawls. We present the background and justifications for using vectors [...]

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  • Featured

    NYCDH Kickoff Event: Information and Democracy

    Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus 113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Following last year’s highly successful event, NYCDH Week 2019 begins on February 4 with a kickoff gathering at Lincoln Center Campus (113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor). This year’s theme is Information and Democracy. The day-long event features speakers, roundtables, lightning talks and networking sessions. Schedule Registration: 10-10:30 Keynote: 10:30-11:30 - Meredith Broussard Panel: 11:30-12:30 - Information, [...]

    Free

  • Digibar

    The Empire Rooftop Bar 44 w 63 st, New York, NY, United States

    NYCDH folks never stop partying, so join us at an establishment of fine beverages to continue the conversations and celebrate!

  • Building a Support Structure for Digital Humanities Research Projects in the Classroom

    NYU 726 Broadway 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B, New York, NY

    This workshop will be a hands-on experience in which participants learn about the different aspects of support necessary for planning and implementing digital humanities research projects in the classroom. The session will be structured in a jigsaw format that puts participants in teams, assigns them functional roles (faculty member, student, instructional designer, librarian, technical staff), [...]

    Free

  • Hands-on with 360 Photo and Video Storytelling

    Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Room 444 219 W 40th St, Fl 3, New York, NY

    Tell stories and explore space from a first-person perspective in this workshop. See how to get started with 360-storytelling and try a 360 camera. We'll watch a 360-video, go over immersive production tools, use the 360 camera and discuss how 360 can be applied to your work. Requirements: attendees should bring a smartphone.    

    Free

  • Introduction to Jekyll

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

    In this workshop you will learn how to use the static website generator, Jekyll. Jekyll is so flexible it can be used to create most modern forms of digital humanities projects and related projects, from personal professional pages, to fully functional digital exhibits. Some familiarity with symbolic computing recommended, but not required. If using a [...]

    Free

  • Text as Data in the Humanities

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

    An introduction to text analysis for literature with a foundational overview of considerations for approaching computational text analysis in the humanities. This workshop will cover a) gathering text corpus, b) copyright considerations c) data cleaning, d) an introduction to the computational software tools e) reading the output and analysis that may include word frequencies, cluster [...]

    Free

  • A Digital Recreation of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery: A Contribution to the Early History of Public Museums in the United States

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

    David Schwittek and Sally Webster will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Tuesday, February 5, at 12:15 pm. Their talk is entitled “A Digital Recreation of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery: A Contribution to the Early History of Public Museums in the United States.” The website, “The Digital Recreation of the Lenox Library Picture [...]

    Free

  • Beyond TEI: Metadata for Digital Humanities

    Pace University, 163 William Street, Room 501 New York, NY, United States

    High-quality metadata is essential for the description, discovery, and preservation of DH projects. While TEI is the most used metadata standard in DH, there is so much more to learn and explore! This course will introduce metadata schemas and standards such as Dublin Core, VRA, controlled vocabularies, and linked data and RDF in the DH [...]

    Free

  • Fair Use in the Digital Humanities

    CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9204 365 Fifth avenue, New York, NY, United States

    A crash course on fair use, particularly for digital humanities projects that use copyrighted works as data. We will look at the wiggle room intentionally built into the language about fair use in United States copyright law, as well as the increasing importance of transformativeness in fair use rulings. Requirements: none

    Free

  • Developing a Digital Mapping Assignment for Your Course

    Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105 163 William St., New York, NY, United States

    For instructors interested in developing a digital mapping assignment, this workshop will provide an overview of some of the most accessible options (Google Earth, StoryMap JS, ArcGIS) and provide examples of mapping assignments. Participants will be asked to submit an idea in advance (it can be very preliminary), which we will develop as part of [...]

    Free

  • Make a simple webmap with Leaflet

    Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

    Learn to make a website from scratch that features a simple webmap with Leaflet. Prerequisites: HTML and JavaScript knowledge is useful but not required. Requirements: attendees should bring their own laptop.

    Free

  • Working with Open Data – intro to APIs

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

    There is so much data out on the web, knowing how to use APIs will let you explore and collect data in a reliable and efficient way. Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop with Jupyter Notebook and Anaconda installed.

    Free

  • Advanced Topics in Word Embeddings

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

    Word embeddings are the hottest new technology in natural language processing, and are used across linguistic computer science, from machine translation to information extraction and computational literary analysis. We will cover advanced topics in word embeddings, including: document similarity analysis, nearest-neighbor analysis, training vector spaces, and visualization. We will use literary texts as examples, but [...]

    Free

  • 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 directories. Knowledge of the command line can be applied in many contexts, including several of the other workshops offered this [...]

    Free

  • What matters to your Congressperson?

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

    What topics most preoccupy your member of Congress? Are those the sorts of things you prioritize? In this workshop users will learn how to navigate a database of Congress to constituent e-newsletters and how to perform text analyses in R to get a top level core of what members of Congress most focus on in [...]

    Free

  • Betwyll: discover the potential of social reading

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

    Betwyll is a social reading app which allow people to comment text in short messages. It can be employed as a didactic tool to make students read literary texts but it can also be applied to more performative texts, allowing people to express their skills and at the same time to build a community of [...]

    Free

  • Using IMDb as a Dataset for Digital Humanities

    SUNY-Empire State College Manhattan 325 Hudson Street 3rd floor, Room 320, New York, NY

    Cindy Conaway, an associate professor in Media Studies and Communication and Diane Shichtman an associate professor in Information Systems at SUNY Empire State College will discuss using the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and its advantages and challenges as a dataset for Digital Humanities. In many ways IMDb is an excellent source for Digital Humanities projects [...]

    Free

  • Data Epistemologies: Intro to Data Taxonomies

    NYU English Department Event Space 244 Greene St., First floor, New York, NY

    Increasingly, humanities scholars are turning to data as a key element of both humanities research and teaching: as DH methods become more prevalent and accessible, students and researchers begin to seek out, digitize, or generate data sets such as cartographic data for mapping, unstructured textual data for distant reading and computational processing, or controlled vocabularies [...]

    Free

  • Introduction to Web Accessibility for DH

    Fordham Lincoln Center, Quinn Library Room 234 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Interested in making sure that your DH project is accessible to people with disabilities? Curious about web accessibility but not sure what it is or where to start? Join us for an introductory session focused on the relationship between code, design, and web accessibility for people with disabilities and/or those using assistive technologies to navigate [...]

    Free

  • Doing DH at a Predominantly Technical University

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

    Do you work at a predominantly technical university? Are you Interested in developing curricula and degree programs in Digital Humanities? This workshop will introduce work being done to develop Digital Humanities at ITMO University in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), which recently established an International DH Lab co-directed by workshop instructors Antonina Puchkovskaya and Kimon Keramidas. During the [...]

    Free

  • Simple-CV

    Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

    Create a pdf and html CV for yourself out of plain text files and set up a personal CV page for free. Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop.    

    Free
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