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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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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 […]