Gephi is free network creation and visualization software available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems. It also provides infrastructure for network analysis and the Java-based code is open-source and available on GitHub. It has been used in a wide variety of academic projects and is especially popular in digital humanities work. A […]
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Project Update: Co-Taught Classes
Brooke McKelvey, Nicole Connell, and Rebecca Hicke The progress we’ve made on our project has been in the data collection area, which we’ve identified as the most time consuming area of our project. We have gotten about 25% of the way through our initial data collection, which involves identifying classes listed in Carleton’s academic catalogs […]
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Midterm Writeup
For my project, I looked at the relationship between artists and mediums of artwork in the artwork from the 1940s in the Tate collection by creating a network. The project is here!
My map shows both squirrel coverage in Central Park and types of land cover. I feel like it is somewhat related, since it seems reasonable that there would be more squirrels in a park, but since we don’t have squirrel data for outside of the park…. I can’t really say. Overall, I thought the program […]
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Making My Own Website
I’m excited to have my own website for the first time. Part of it is the ability to post content on it, which I’m sure we will be doing for class, but also so I can explore the various ways in which the site can be customized and edited with functions like Simple Custom CSS […]
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Symbiosis
Whereas a “fluency” in programming languages should not be required or expected of humanities students, I believe that a basic familiarity with how computer science works and the limits and abilities of the programmer is important for anyone to know today. As the world becomes more technological, it is more and more likely that people […]
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Tracking Authors
Authorial London is a project that maps references to places in and around London that either have biographical or literary connections to authors. It is run by Stanford University and was originally led by Professor Martin Evans, but is currently maintained by members of the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research as well as others associated […]
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Different Approaches
“What is less-often noted is that computational methods have been altered in significant ways by humanist approaches. Indeed, this is a challenge for the development of the Digital Humanities, namely the ways in which ambiguity, interpretation, contingency, positionality, and differential approaches can be embodied in computation.” Burdick et al. “One: From Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, […]
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SketchUp Process
I think there were some elements of this process that were easy to grasp, and some that were more challenging. Making the basic three dimensional shapes that formed the house was relatively easy but trying to include details or less simple objects was more difficult, especially since there were some rules to how the tools […]
