Labs

In the spirit of learning by making and diving in head first, we are starting with some relatively easy 3D modeling. Our collective project for the term will revolve around Carleton's built environment and building histories, and fabricating an interactive...

Digital Humanities as Community, or Making Relationships Debates over the definition of the Digital Humanities are by this point very clichéd , to the point that many people have begun arguing that we stop worrying about it altogether.  There ...

Today we are going to dive into what Burdick et al. call "The Basic Unit" of Digital Humanities, the project . We will examine the various component parts and learn how to analyze them effectively. One of the most common reactions to seeing finished...

HTML/CSS 101 Separation of functions by layer HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the bedrock foundations on which the world wide web (and therefore most digital humanities projects) are based. HTML  provides the basic structural markup...

Big Data generally refers to extremely large datasets that require demanding computational analysis to reveal patterns and trends, such as the map below generated from the data in millions of Twitter posts. We are producing reams of this data...

We've spent the first few weeks of term getting a crash course in the technical infrastructure of web-based digital projects, and we have looked at how Content Management Systems like the WordPress platform this site runs on process and present data....

Before we get into the heart of Spatial Humanities, we are going to continue to learn by doing through work on our collective class project of creating a hybrid digital/analog 3D model of Carleton's Campus. As with all DH projects, there are...

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of web mapping tools and platforms.  These tools have long allowed the simple display of and basic interactions with spatially referenced data, but until recently, if you wanted to do any sort...

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 ...

One of the biggest advances in recent years has been the democratization of 3D fabrication through consumer grade technologies like 3D printers, CNC routers and mills, and laser cutters. These tools allow digital 3D models that were previously only viewable...

This week we are going to explore the basic principles, and some concrete examples, of data visualization. You might think that data viz is something only scientists and quantitative social scientists are allowed to do, but there are an increasing...

For any sort of textual analysis project, DHers need to spend LOTS of time cleaning the data first before they can analyze it or create meaningful visualizations. Today we are going to pick up on the tools we saw briefly last time, step through the...

Congrats on completing your midterm mini-projects! They look great so far and I'll be giving you detailed feedback by Tuesday, posted in Moodle. We'll start class with a debrief of the process and your reactions and/or questions about how to apply...

DH Awards 2019 Today is project work day, so we’ll check in and do hands on work.  But first, for inspiration, check out the DH Awards 2019 Voting These are annual community awards (with a prize of nothing but bragging rights). Voting is...

Assignment Tutorial Blog Post (Due Thursday, 3/5) For this assignment, create a step-by-step tutorial as a blog post demonstrating a particular technique, tool, or other helpful how-to discovery you’ve made over the past several weeks in this c...