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 […]

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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 […]

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>>> 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 […]

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