This semester, I returned to holding R open labs with another student intern, Hanying Ji. We made some adjustment about the structure of the open labs. Time flies, and now our R open labs have reached its end for this semester. I would like to summarize our journey and provide insights for both myself and […]
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R Open Lab Reflections
Sharing is always good! I am really happy to get a great opportunity to work for Digital Center in my last semester at Columbia as a R Open Lab Intern in Digital Center Internship Program.R is really a powerful tool for statistic and data science nowadays which I love most. Holding weekly R Open Lab and […]
Python Open Lab Reflections
This fall semester I got an excellent opportunity to work as a Digital Center Intern, as part of the Digital Centers Internship Program. My work involved data consulting, as well as assisting in leading Python OpenLabs. I am a Statistician, so R is more intuitive to me. However, due to onset of Machine Learning and […]
Python Open Lab mid-term reflection (Fall 2018)
This semester I am glad to participate in the Python Open Lab of the digital center. Staying with students just reminds of myself. When I learned my first programming language, I had a lot of struggle and made tons of mistakes. As a result, I get much experience and I am really happy to share […]
Mid-Semester Reflection – R Open Labs
Now the semester is halfway done, I think it is a good time to review our progress of this code teaching program. The R open lab’s performance has improved compared to the last one. We are having a consistent population of attendee, and we have already covered more topics than last semester. I am confident […]
Python Open Labs S.2018: How it all went down
Lab Structure and Technicalities: This semester I returned to running the Python Open Labs with another student intern and upon started, we had some discussions about our ideas for structuring the labs over the next few months. We decided to stay consistent with the formatting of the lab: started the semester with the starter kit […]
Computationally Detecting Similar Books in Project Gutenberg
As one of the first digital libraries, Project Gutenberg has lived through a few generations of computers, digitization techniques, and textual infrastructures. It’s not surprising, then, that the corpus is fairly messy. Early transcriptions of some electronic texts, hand-keyed using only uppercase letters, were succeeded by better transcriptions, but without replacing the early versions. As […]
>>> myPythonOpenLab = (“A Holistic Approach to Python”)
Overview of the Fall 2017 Python Open Labs Python Open Labs reconvened in September with three new DSSC interns. Unlike my colleagues studying Computer Science and Computer Engineering, I am a Human Rights Masters Student at SIPA/ISHR. While we come from different backgrounds and levels of expertise in Python, this semester has been both productive […]
R Open Lab: Looking Back and Moving Forward
In the past academic year, I worked as a teaching intern with the Digital Social Science Center and Digital Science Center, hosting R open labs and workshops. Most of the people at R Open Lab are using R for their research projects; therefore in the past semester, I tried out several different teaching practices in search […]
Python Open Labs – Spring 2017
Hi This post details my experience as a Digital Science Center Teaching Intern for the Spring ‘17 semester, wherein I hosted the weekly Python Open Labs to teach programming with python. This internship is my first full fledged teaching experience where I got complete freedom to choose the topics that I introduced during Python Open […]