Category: Coding & Development

  • CCSWG18 Week 3 Write-Up: Race and Code

    CCSWG18 Week 3 Write-Up: Race and Code

    WEEK 3: RACE AND CODE CRITICAL CODE STUDIES WORKING GROUP 2018 Write-Up by Catherine Griffiths Main Thread Race and Black Codes Race and Code Critiques Black Code/Database/Humans Chimeria: Gatekeeper by Fox Harrell The Beloved Community License Other Code Critiques Started This Week Port of Secrets / snippet of anti-code from the Irvine-based GM-less larp community […]

  • CCSWG18 Week 2 Write-Up: Critical + Creative Coding

    CCSWG18 Week 2 Write-Up: Critical + Creative Coding

    WEEK 2: CRITICAL + CREATIVE CODING by Teddy Roland   Week 2 Threads: Week 2: Creative and Critical Coding (Main thread) Week 2: Creative and Critical Coding. Coding as Method? Week 2: Critical and Creative Coding – Calvinball and Coders Week 2: Poetry as Code? Code as Poetry Week 2: Rando by Ben Grosser (Code […]

  • Generate an Annotated Bibliography with Zotero

    I started a PhD program this semester, and I vowed not to repeat some of the mistakes of my master’s thesis. I mean, I made many mistakes, but two are relevant here: I did not do a good job of tracking what I read. This meant that I when I would try to find Smart […]

  • The Joys, Struggles, and Ultimate Triumphs of Coding: My Experience Learning the Language of Java

    The Joys, Struggles, and Ultimate Triumphs of Coding: My Experience Learning the Language of Java

    I had originally signed up to take Intermediate French I for my final semester at Wesleyan College. Unfortunately, I was informed that the class had been cancelled when I returned to campus after the summer, though the professor still gave me the resources I needed to learn higher-level French on my own time…I haven’t opened […]

  • Call for Papers: IEEE International Conference on Big Data

    The workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 in Boston,  MA, USA, in conjunction with the 2017  IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2017)[cci.drexel.edu]. See call for papers at: http://dcicblog.umd.edu/cas/ieee_big_data_2017_cas-workshop/[dcicblog.um… ***** Submission Deadline: October 10, 2017 ***** The large-scale digitization of analog archives, the emerging diverse  forms of digital records and […]

  • DML Playlist Final Report!

    DML Playlist Final Report!

    1. Who were you addressing with your design objective? Urban public high school students.  While New York City (NYC) is considered the media and technology capital of the world, the population Urban Arts Partnership (UAP) serves — i.e. people of color living in NYC’s communities of low-income — is underrepresented in this industry. Roughly 11% […]

  • Kroski’s hands-on sourcebook for makerspaces

    Kroski’s hands-on sourcebook for makerspaces

    Facet Publishing have announced the release of The Makerspace Librarian’s Sourcebook. Makerspaces are drawing new users into libraries and engaging them as never before. Edited by technology expert Ellyssa Kroski, The Makerspace Librarian’s Sourcebook, is a must-read for any librarian using technology in teaching and learning as well as those considering whether to set up […]

  • Data Visualization in R: ggplot, plotly, googleVis and igraph overview

    Data Visualization in R: ggplot, plotly, googleVis and igraph overview

    My recent workshop on Visualization in R. There are four different packages in R to visualize data: ggplot2, plotly, googlevis, igraph. In this hands-on workshop you will learn some basics of each package. Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/obscrivn/r-visualization-ggplot2-googlevis-plotly-igraph-overview ​Data set: http://tutorials.iq.harvard.edu/R/Rgraphics/dataSets/landdata-states.csv (image credit: https://community.uservoice.com/blog/data-visualization-best-practices/)

  • Codecademy: Educational Institution?

    Codecademy: Educational Institution?

    Most people use smartphones or laptops to communicate with one another and are aware of the fact that programming is a significant component behind making these things work. The issue at hand is that the majority of these people do not know how to write code. Two reasons for this would be that the person […]

  • Data Visualization: Introduction to Shiny Web Applications

    Data Visualization: Introduction to Shiny Web Applications

    With the growing interest in interactive web applications for data visualization, the mastery of reactive frameworks, such as Shiny, becomes a valuable skill set in data science and digital humanities. Shiny is the analytical dashboards package created by R Studio, one of the key promoters and developers of R. It allows for rapid prototyping and deployment […]