Last Friday, Map Club embarked upon its second workshop of the semester. This time, we focused on QGIS, a free and open source geographic information system that offers powerful tools for data editing, viewing, and analysis. Participants learned how to import shapefiles into the interface, explore data using the attribute table, and visualize land use in Manhattan with public building footprint data. From […]
R Open Labs – Writing Functions
This Wednesday we talked about how to wrie functions in R. The topic is very simple but useful. Thank you to everyone who showed up! See you next Wednesday 11/16/2016 10:00-12:00 at DSSC! Also, we will host a R workshop about regresssion next Friday 11/19/2016 10:00-11:00 at Science & Engineering LIbrary! […]
2016 Elections, how to get information for your stories
Congratulations student body for being present for one of the craziest election cycles that have happened in America within my lifetime. With this election the School of Journalism is going to have a pop-up newsroom so that you to can experience the thrill of covering elections. To help, we here at the library offer these […]
Python Open Labs – Session 6
Hi In the 6th session of Python Open Labs, today we covered the concepts on comparison operators, logical operations and complex logical expressions. If you attended today’s session, I encourage you all to try out the practice problems from the slides on the google drive link given below. Python Open Labs Slides: https://goo.gl/YP0c2E Tip of the […]
R Open Labs – Time Series Analysis (contd)
This Wednesday we continued to talk about some broad ideas of time series analysis. We explored seasonal trend decomposition, which can be used to show the seasonal fluctuation and main trend of the dataset. It’s a very involved topic, so thank you and a round of applause to everyone who showed up today. Next week […]
Library Hours on Election Day 2016
Several of our libraries will have shortened hours on Election Day, Tuesday, November 8. Please see below for a schedule of temporary changes to libraries’ hours. Business & Economics Library: CLOSED C.V. Starr East Asian Library: 9am – 7pm Geology Library: 9am – 5pm Health Sciences Library: 9am – 5pm Lehman Social Sciences Library: 9am […]
Map Club — Dynamic Mapping with OpenLayers
The latest session of Map Club focused on OpenLayers, a high-performance library for rendering geographic information in the browser. OpenLayers enables users to visualize a diverse range of geospatial data formats, while offering intuitive links to external web-based mapping resources such as CARTO, OpenStreetMap, Stamen, and D3.js. Participants explored OpenLayers functionality for importing KML and GeoJSON data, experimented with linking to […]
Python Open Labs – Session 5
Hi Thanks for stopping by this post. In the 5th session of Python Open Labs, today we covered the concept of for loops in python along with a quick revision of concepts from the previous sessions. If you attended today’s session, I encourage you all to try out the practise […]
R Open Labs – Time Series Analysis
This Wednesday we talked about time series analysis. It is a very complex and involved topic, but most participants showed great interest, so we would continue talking about this for the next few sessions. Thank you to everyone who showed up! See you next Wednesday 11/02/2016 10:00-12:00 at DSSC! […]
Reading Bias Discussion Group
Did you miss the last discussion and want to attend? The next one is taking place in Lehman Library on November 2nd! Register at the link below! […]