Category: Assignments
Web Mapping 101
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…
Spatial Humanities: GIS/Mapping 101
For the next two weeks we will be exploring the spatial humanities — a vibrant and increasingly popular area of digital humanities research. Humanities scholarship is…
Hacking on the Zotero database
This week we have been learning about relational databases and how they work. Database management system like MySQL and PostgreSQL power the back end of many…
Databases, Classification, and Metadata
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…
Big Data and the Database
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…
JavaScript 101
JavaScript is the lingua franca of the modern responsive web, and almost all the pages you interact with online use it in some form or…
HTML/CSS 101
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…
Your Digital Identity
One of the goals of this course is to help you develop not just digital literacy but digital fluency. A person literate in a given…
WordPress 101
Digital Humanities as Community Debates over the definition of the Digital Humanities are by this point very clichéd, to the point that many people have begun…
SketchUp and 3D basics
The 3D software with the gentlest learning curve is SketchUp. Formerly owned by Google, it puts an emphasis on ease of use and compatibility with…
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