TimeMapper vs. ArcGIS’s StoryMap Today I will present you a tutorial of using TimeMapper to create your own timeline map with ease. Although my group used ArcGIS’s StoryMap to build our final project, I found this TimeMapper a great tool to display texts with its coherent story on maps more efficiently. ArcGIS’s StoryMap is more […]
ArcGIS is a really powerful tool that allows us to create interactive information maps. This tool could combine the GIS map and other information (such as 3D models, text, and pictures). If you want to know how to use this powerful tool, the first step is, surely, open the app. So, firstly, you can search […]
Hello! Sit down and get comfortable. I’ve decided to go meta and show you how to use a tool you can use to make a variety of things including tutorials! This post will give you a quick little introduction to Snagit. So, what is Snagit? Snagit is a screenshot program that captures audio/visual output. It […]
For those of us who are less than mediocre with technology, WordPress plugins are a godsend. I discovered the limitless possibilities within plugins after I struggled to write code that would change my website’s cursor. After spending a great deal of time without any success, I discovered a plugin called Cursor Control, which made it […]
While attempting to recreate OCS data from old printouts to google sheets, I found that for the sake of time and sanity, I could not quickly convert 10 years of OCS programming by hand. Thus, I started looking into a number of OCR programs. OCR essentially allows you to take jpeg or non-highlightable pdfs and […]
While there are numerous data visualization tools available, GGPlot still stands as one of the more comprehensive and creatively flexible platforms. GGPlot is a data visualization package for R, a widely used statistical computing program. Compared to tools like popular visualization tools like Tableau, GGPlot is much harder to understand (it’s syntax/structure can be frustrating […]
What is Palladio? Palladio is an online tool that allows users to visualize data in the form of maps, graphs, timelines, and tables. With many different ways to manipulate the data, Palladio specializes in showing data that has many attributes. However, because of the many different features, Palladio users often experience bugs. In order to […]
Author: Zhihan Yang Introduction Two weeks ago, I read about a tool that can extract the main colors from (photos of) paintings. This tool uses the k-means algorithm to group pixels into a user-specified number of major colors. A painting can easily contain millions of different colors; this tool reduces this number into a manageable […]
The tool I selected for my tutorial is called Autodesk Inventor. Autodesk Inventor is a computer-aided design application for 3D mechanical design. Whereas the SketchUp program we used was geared more towards architectural and interior design, Autodesk Inventor is geared more towards product design and engineering. Although it is geared more towards engineering, I have […]
Although it is not directly relevant to my groups final project, I wanted to take advantage of an opportunity to apply the digital humanities to my own area of interest. I have recently become familiar with the computer music programming language Chuck, which has expanded my ability to understand how we think about the relationship […]
Gephi is an open-source visualization software. It is especially useful for link and network analysis. Gephi is capable of in-depth analysis and creating and customizing your own visuals. Gephi uses data points called nodes connected by lines (edges) that represent the links and networks between them. Many examples online show analysis of website pathways, social […]
The internet is full of data processing and visualization software packages that allow people with relatively little computing experience to create polished looking digital projects. However, these softwares often want data in a very specific format which differs from package to package. Each new tool is like a keyhole that necessitates reshaping the data in […]
Flourish Studio is a web-based data visualization tool born out of developers Duncan Clark and Robin Houston’s desires to create a visualization tool easily accessible and usable for non-coders. After creating a free account (with paid options available), users of Flourish gain access to dozens of templates for data visualization, from simple bar graphs to […]
Juxta Editions is an online platform for digitizing printed and handwritten documents. You can either transcribe a single document, or a series of documents and compile them into an edition. Either way, the process begins the same way: by uploading a JPG, PNG, or GIF. Once this file is uploaded, Juxta Editions offers two methods […]
This tutorial covers how to resize an image with the online tool Waifu2x and digitally clean a scanned image in Adobe Photoshop. The example image that I chose to use for this tutorial is a map, as I feel like old maps are a good example of images that Digital Humanists would want to clean […]
Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editing application that supports high resolution video editing, Audio Sample level editing, and Surround Sound mixing. Beyond that, Premiere also has the ability to support 3D video editing utilizing 2D monitors. Audition is a supplement to Premier in that it allows for more extensive and technical audio modification. They […]
Data visualization is increasingly becoming a vital resource in presenting data and evidence in the humanities and social sciences (hence the subject area of digital humanities), where technology has traditionally not been used. For my group’s final project for the course, we knew that data visualization would be a key element to the completion of […]
Or: “The Tutorial the RIAA Doesn’t Want You to Have” by Gin Coffin Introduction If you have a computer, chances are that you listen to audio on it. Probably you listen to even more than you realize: audio is an ever-present part of the internet, computer games and programs, and even many operating systems. But […]
For this tutorial, I selected Stanford’s Palladio tool. I was interested in learning about this tool for my final project and also because I find the mapping aspect of the digital humanities very interesting. Palladio can be used for many different data displays. It can show movement between points on a map, link maps together, […]
There are many organizational and collaborative apps out there, but from my experience, one that changes the way you work – as a team or on your own in projects is Trello. At first look, Trello seems like any ordinary organizational software, but Trello is such a powerful tool of collaboration especially in the context […]
Recogito is a new text annotation software used to analyse and critique text without the messy brackets. It is useful for a variety of students who require to analyze relationships between people mentioned, places named and more. I firstly used the sample text to annotate names, words and places. Then I downloaded a txt file […]
WordPress makes creating a website much easier by removing the programming barrier. By using blocks, widgets, and menus one can customize various aspects of a webpage without ever having to interact with HTML or CSS. That being said, this comes with some creative limitations being that you are forced to adhere to the templates and […]
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 […]
ArcGis storymap is a web-based application that allows the user to create a narrative with the use of a map. Using this application can help to visualize information and tell a story in an engaging and interactive way. With the option of including videos and images, ArcGis storymap is the perfect place to engage an […]
Needed: ArcGIS online subscription and working knowledge of the software. If you are a Carleton student, you can get access to ArcGIS by going to this link. Austin Mason and Wei-Hsin Fu are also great resources to learn more about ArcGIS. Why StoryMap Journal? Alongside other built in Web App that come on board the […]
For the tutorial project, I chose to demonstrate how to use WordPress plugins that help website creators translate their websites into different languages for a diverse, international audience. The first option, Google Language Plugin, requires almost no effort on the part of the website creator. It automatically translates all information in an original language into […]
Annotation Studio is a web based application designed to engage its users with a hands-on digital approach to analyzing texts. Users have the ability to practice and develop skills that pertain to a humanities standpoint by annotating readings and primary sources while also sharpening their proficiency of online web use. With an indefinitely growing digital […]
Autodesk Fusion 360 is a CAD software which is a lot like Sketchup, but without all those annoying dots. The program is free for students,but can make your computer angry, which is why I used a school computer for this tutorial. Fusion 360 is really helpful for modeling different objects, especially for 3D printing. Today […]
