The Database “Back End”

In our continuing quest to explore what goes on “under the hood” of digital humanities projects, this week we are moving from the front-end client-side user experience to the database “back end” on the server side, where all the data storage and information retrieval magic happens.  In order to perform analysis,

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Big Data and Digital Humanities

Last week we tore furiously through the front-end of web development — HTML, CSS and JavaScript.  But we are not learning coding here, we are doing Digital Humanities. Today let’s look at how we can put those skills into practice for humanities data to tell a story. One of the longest-running

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