• Join the MSUDH Email Listserv

    Join the MSUDH Listserv for email updates about events and announcements on campus and beyond. Join the list at list.matrix.msu.edu/listinfo/msudh. Visit the listserv archive here.

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  • Tableau Workshop – Tutorial

    If you missed the Tableau workshop from Wed, Oct 5, 2016, you can follow along with what we learned using this tutorial.

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    Save the Date – Global DH Symposium, Mar 16-17, 2017

    This day and a half symposium looks to continue in the critical and global spirit of examining digital humanities established at the inaugural Global DH Symposium in April 2016 (find out more at http://msuglobaldh.org/). Save the Date! Global Digital Humanities Symposium   March 16-17, 2017 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Free and open to

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  • Reflecting on DHSI

    Though it’s been a couple months since DHSI, I’ve still been thinking about the things I learned that week. But first, I want to talk about my overall impression of the summer institute. Before I walked onto UVic’s (University of Victoria) campus and became apart of the DHSI community, I thought this program would be

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    Register for a Workshop!

    We have some exciting workshops set up for this fall. We hope to see you there! Beginner Tools Workshop: Getting Started in the Digital Humanities Git Workshop: Git and GitHub for Humanities Data Visualization Workshop: Visualizing Data with Tableau 3D Modeling with Photogrammetry Topic Modeling Workshop: Brief Introduction to Topic Modeling Also save the date

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    Meaningful Intersections in Trendy Humanities

    Summer is almost gone, and it seems a good time to reflect on the exciting opportunities it brought. To briefly introduce my reflection (though many of you already know me): my name is Cody Mejeur, and I am a PhD student in English working on video game narrative–particularly the interrelationship of narrative and play as

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  • Further adventures in the digital humanities?

    As anticipated on this very blog, I recently spent a week in Indianapolis attending a workshop on computational text analysis at HILT 2016. We spent our time surveying a number of different tools, techniques, and concepts related to text analysis, so I walked away with a greater appreciation for data cleaning, Weka, HathiTrust, metadata, Python,

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    Getting Ready for DHSI

    In order to get to DHSI in Victoria, BC I had to take two planes, four buses, and a ferry. This trip was weighing on me as I began to realize I would be up for almost two days getting to Canada. I started to ask myself, why would I spend my summer taking a

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  • New Adventures in the Digital Humanities

    In a few days, I’ll be heading down to Indianapolis to attend a workshop on computational text analysis that runs from June 13th through June 16th. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise to anyone who’s had to listen to me ramble about my research: I’ve been waist-deep in R for a while

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    Learning Data Visualization Strategies at HILT

    As a I prepare to travel to Indianapolis for the HILT (Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching) Institute, I’ve been reflecting on my connection to Digital Humanities research and pedagogy. As a researcher of visual/digital rhetoric, I have been consistently fascinated by the ways researchers take diverse data sets and communicating the findings visually. The data visualizations I

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