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Using Handbrake to Convert Videos

November 12, 2015nardij 5 Comments

Handbrake is a free and open source program that can be used to convert video into different formats. This can be useful in the digital humanities as some programs require a certain format of videos and sometimes the video that… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized conversion, Handbrake, tutorial, video

Commons in a Box_Powerful Plugin for WordPress

November 11, 2015wangda 2 Comments

Before introducing this powerful tool for your WordPress site, I want everybody to check out this cool site for digital humanities: http://dhawards.org/.  It’s a site dedicated to the Digital Humanities Awards: Highlighting Resources in Digital Humanities, where the public is able to bring… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized Commons in a Box, plugin, tutorial, WordPress

Python for Dummies

November 11, 2015Quang Tran 7 Comments

Python is an incredible simple yet powerful programming language that is widely used in Digital Humanities community. With Python scripting, one can instantaneously do work that would otherwise require hours of manual labor. In this post, I will explain the basics… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized coding, programming, Python, text analysis, tutorial

Piwik: Open-Source Analytics Software You Can Install on your WordPress Blog

November 10, 2015Dustin 3 Comments

Introduction So… you built yourself a stellar website to display your digital humanities project. Is anyone viewing it? How did they get there?  What country are they from? Analytics software let’s you keep track of this type of information. One… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized analytics, dustin, google, mySQL, privacy, reclaim hosting, site traffic, tutorial

Quirkos?!

November 10, 2015yanesa 5 Comments

What is Quirkos? Quirkos is a qualitative research software that helps you categorize, manage and understand text data. This can be further used to compare different texts, while allowing you to organize themes that can come across different texts. Not… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized qualitative methods, Quirkos, text analysis, text encoding, tutorial

Audacity-Noise Removal!

November 10, 2015songj2 5 Comments

Audacity – A free multi-track audio editor and recorder Audacity is a free software that allows users to edit and record audio for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. There are many tools in this program that… Continue Reading →

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Editing Topography with Sketchup Sandbox Tools

November 10, 2015malakoffe 5 Comments

How do you make rivers where there once were lakes? Or build mountains from plains? How about raising islands from seas, flattening hills, or flipping the world upside-down? It may sound like a god’s work, but with common domain Sketchup any mere… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized 3D, 3D modeling, DEM, sandbox, SketchUp, terrain modeling, topography, tutorial

Project ROME Tutorial

November 10, 2015smithc3 5 Comments

Project ROME is a piece of software that can be used to create many different kinds of digital media. In this tutorial, I will be going over how to make a simple interactive infographic. The infographic I created as an example can be… Continue Reading →

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Charts: Yet Another Google Product

November 10, 2015pallavkumar 3 Comments

As most web users these days know, Google is ubiquitous. The company runs the largest online search engine, developed the most popular smartphone software, and has gracefully adopted and led in use of “the cloud”, which is the basis of… Continue Reading →

Uncategorized coding, google, Google Charts, JavaScript, timeline, tutorial

InqScribe Lets You Take Control

November 8, 2015kassahunm 2 Comments

Isn’t it frustrating when you want to sing along to your favorite song but you can’t because Youtube conveniently doesn’t have a lyric video for it? Well, how about DIY-ing and writing your own transcriptions to your favorite song? You… Continue Reading →

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