Category: Assignments
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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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