Hello Reader, I am Rohit Bharadwaj, a graduate student to the Masters in Data Science program. I have worked as a software engineer at Factset for four years where I used machine learning and natural language processing techniques to handle information retrieval problems. I joined the Digital Social Science Center as a digital centers intern […]
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What is a codec?
Anyone that has worked in digital video has likely stumbled upon the same problem: codecs. Just what are they? Why won’t my video play? Why does Final Cut take hours to transcode? Why can’t it “just work?” Why can’t it be easier? This post attempts to answer some of those questions. It is by no […]
Intro to Mapping Dance Studios
(Or, why the introduction is always written last) About three-quarters into the academic year, I’m throwing up my self-introduction and brief description of my project. I describe my academic orientation as “dance historian,” and officially I’m a PhD student in the Theatre Program. My general background is in the history of western theatrical dance, with […]
jumping in! (some early ruminations)
Greetings from the rabbit hole of code, where I’ve been falling Alice-style for a little over two months now, with the wind—and the ominous notes from the opening credits of Hitchcock’s Vertigo—in my ears. Should the two references hold, I’m bound to end up eventually in Wonderland…flat on my face. + The narrative mash-up also […]
Restaurants Searching Website
Greetings! Digital Center friends, It has been a while since my last blog released. So, I’m desperate to share you some of my latest progress. Along with my ongoing project of Agency Catalog Database, I was getting myself familiarized with JavaScript, java, JDBC and SQL by creating a website, the major functions of which including searching restaurants […]
Self-introduction and projects @ Digital Science Center
Greetings, fellow digital interns. I am Hao Li from the department of IEOR (SEAS), majoring in operations research. I am keenly interested in data mining and analytics applications. During the summer I interviewed with Columbia Digital Science Center, and finally got this internship! The main project I am working on is to develop a budget […]
Mining the Old Bailey. Project Introduction
Greetings, fellow digital scholars! Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jose Tomas Atria, and I am an intern at the Digital Social Sciences Center for the 2014/2015 academic year. I am a PhD student at the Sociology Department at Columbia, and my dissertation work consists in the exploitation of a massive digitized […]
Database for Agency Collection of Social Work_Week 1
Greetings! Digital Center friends, My name is Nanjun Lu, I come from China and now pursuing a Master’s degree in Electric Engineering at Columbia University. Unlike most of EE, CE or CS students who have keen interests in software development or hardware design, my primary research interests are power systems analysis, electric vehicle modeling and […]
Self-Introduction: Sneha A. Desai
One way to describe my project as a Digital Humanities fellow this year would be that I’m exploring the connections between the impossibility of translating poetry and the assessment of what would be lost should we cease to learn languages. To put it another way, my project is to confront the mourning, the sense of dread—the language of betrayal and […]
Medieval Icelandic Place Name Map: GIS in Action
Greetings, digitalists, In my last blog entry, titled “Space and Place in Literature: Reflections on Mapping the Medieval Icelandic Outlaw Sagas,” I shared my three main methodological takeaways: allow time to really determine the question(s) driving your research, look for methodological and software-based flexibility, and make sure you implement a system to manage your data […]