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Science at Carleton

Jocelyn and I sought to answer the question, “How and why have the course offerings within the science departments at Carleton changed since 1867?” We did…

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Google Apps Script

Experience a whole new level of what Google’s tools can do! This tutorial serves as an introduction to useful applications of Google Apps Script in Google Sheets, such as auto-sorting and extracting specific subsets of data.

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Visualizing Data Using Lucidchart

Many historical accounts, novels, or documents can be better understood and analyzed when displayed visually, rather than as a plain block of text. Imagine you…

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Visualization Project: Timeline

Last time we used OpenRefine to clean up a dataset of book images from the British Library. In particular, we were cleaning the “Date of…

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Cleaning Text Data

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…

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Photogrammetry: 3D Modeling from Photographs

First things first Make sure Photoscan is installed on your lab computer If not, go to Agisoft.com/downloads/installer to download the Agisoft PhotoScan 1.4.5 Standard Edition.   NB: Agisoft…

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Text 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…

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3D 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…

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Archives, Metadata, and SketchUp 201

Last time we began an applied project of using these spatial tools we’ve been learning to reconstruct a specific historic environment: in this case, Northfield,…

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Spatial Humanities Applied: Class Project

Last week, you learned about the spatial humanities, explored some map-based DH projects, and gotten an introduction to web mapping tools. Today, we are going…

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