Publication and Presentation (Week 10) Projects will be finished and published BEFORE CLASS on Friday, March 9 One member of each group should write a blog post giving a brief introduction and providing a link to the final project. On the last day of class each group will give a
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DH Awards 2017
Today is project work day, so we’ll checkin and do hands on work. But for inspiration check out the DH Awards 2017 Nominees These are annual community awards (with a prize of nothing but bragging rights). Voting just closed, sadly, but there should be good inspiration as we work towards
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The advent of the internet, and especially of its more socially connected Web 2.0 variant, has ushered in a golden age for the concept of the network. The interconnected world we now live in has changed not only the way we study computers and the internet, but the very way
Continue readingFinal Project Update Post (CLASS CANCELED)
Class is canceled today, but you should use the time to check in with your group members and draft your follow up post for the final project. Read over the outline below and take stock of your project plans. Have a draft ready to go for Wednesday and we
Continue readingVisualization Dos and Donts
This week we are going to explore some dos and don’ts of data visualization as you prepare for your final projects. Edward Tufte is widely considered one of the world’s leading data visualization gurus, and has been called everything from “Leonardo da Vinci of data” to the “Galileo of graphics.” Tufte
Continue readingCleaning Data
Extracting Text from PDF There are many ways to get OCR’d text out of a pdf, from APIs to python utilities to copy/paste. If you are on a mac, one of the easiest is to set up an automator script to generate output from any PDF you drop on top
Continue readingText Analysis 101: XML, TEI, and VoyantTools
Over the past few weeks we have discussed and seen how the modern dynamic web—and the digital humanities projects it hosts—comprise structured data (usually residing in a relational database) that is served to the browser based on a user request where it is rendered in HTML markup. This week we are exploring how
Continue reading3D Modeling from Photographs with Photogrammetry
First things first Go to Agisoft.com/downloads/installer to download the PhotoScan Standard Edition. A demo mode is available for free that will let you try everything except exporting and saving your model. Download the sample photograph dataset that we will use in class today So far in our
Continue reading3D Simulations and Algorithmic Modeling
Manual 3D modeling techniques are very effective and have had a long history of producing impressive digital humanities projects. Lisa Snyder’s long-running project to recreate the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1863 in Chicago is a prime example of what these techniques can accomplish in skilled hands. Increasingly, however, computers
Continue readingArchives, Metadata, and SketchUp 201
Last week we begun to get stuck in to our class project on reconstructing 1876 Northfield and the context of the James-Younger raid. We began the process of digitizing building footprints and gathering the archival research that will let us build them in 3D. This week we are going to
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