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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 the public. CFP and further details will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.
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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 filled with graduate students who were all attending classes that would likely be their field of study. However, I realized that the DHSI is widely attended by undergraduate, graduate, faculty, and community members from all over the world. In fact, I realized that many people…
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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 for LOCUS at the end of the semester — this edition will be on modeling, broadly.
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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 cognitive processes. In June I had the honor and pleasure to take part in the Cognitive Futures in the Humanities 2016 conference in Helsinki, Finland, and to present my work at the “Cognition and Digitisation: Joint Future for the Humanities?” workshop that preceded the conference.…
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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, and much more. The most frustrating part of the workshop was that we visited each topic so briefly and that we had so few opportunities to apply these techniques to our own work. I can’t fault the workshop organizers for these decisions—helping participants take a…
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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 class for fun? The plane ride was fine and the ferry ride was beautiful, but even when I reached land in Victoria I was still feeling uneasy. Once I retrieved my keys for the dorm, I walked around aimless for only a few minutes before…
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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 now, there’s a digital methods category on my research blog, and I certainly haven’t been shy about wanting to pick up some text analysis skills to add to my repertoire. The one thing that could turn heads, though, is that I’m a PhD Candidate in…
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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 find most interesting are industry-based, like Graphic Designers Surveyed by LucienneRoberts+ and Stefanie Posavec, or Posavec’s blog-turned-book Dear Data. Partnering with Giorgia Lupi, Dear Data catalogs a weekly data visualization based on the personal aspects of Lupi and Posavec’s lives. My favorite week was “A week of getting dressed” (see above). Despite…
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Conference report: Black Studies and the Digital Humanities – New Developments
I recently attended two fantastic conferences that covered a range of new and interesting scholarship and activism happening at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and the interdisciplinary Black Studies field. My research draws on developments in the digital humanities that document histories of oppression and black resistance in the African Diaspora. I presented highlights of my research on shared consciousness, social ties, and race/ethnicity before the Haitian Revolution, and how it is facilitated by digitized runaway slave advertisements from colonial Haiti, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, and other developments in the digital humanities. Important themes of the #Envisioning Black…