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Job: MVP Seeks Postdoc Applications

The Modernist Versions Project (MVP) seeks applicants for a post-doctoral fellowship valued at $31,500/year for two years. The successful applicant will be expected to join the project on site in Victoria, BC and to take a leading role in developing the next phase of the MVP as well as pursuing his or her own original […]

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Resource: EEBO Tutorial: Books by printer + publisher

I wrote this tutorial, and another, for my English 411 (Seventeenth Century Literature) students to complete their EEBO Assignment, but both may be useful to others. The  instructions assume that you are logging in to Early English Books Online through your institution; mine is the University of Calgary Library.

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Resource: Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis

The goal of this article is to assist designers, researchers, professional analysts, procurement officers, educators, and students in evaluating and creating visual analysis tools. We present a taxonomy of interactive dynamics that contribute to successful analytic dialogues. The taxonomy consists of 12 task types grouped into three high-level categories, as shown in table 1: (1) […]

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Editors’ Choice: Archival Silences Round-Up

Ted Underwood, Big but not distant, March 3, 2012 It’s true that DH doesn’t have to be identified with scale. But the fact remains that problems of scale constitute a huge blind spot for individual researchers, and also define a problem that we know computers can help us explore. And when you first go into an area that […]

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Presentation: NITLE Event: Why Digital Humanities?

NITLE Event: Why Digital Humanities?. March 22, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Faculty, instructional technologists, librarians, and others from NITLE Network institutions are invited to this presentation and discussion on the digital humanities led by Dr. Lisa Spiro, Director of NITLE Labs. (Times EDT) Online via NITLE’s high-definition videoconferencing platform

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Resource: Project Management 2: Tracking Progress

One of the most important aspects of project management is – no surprise here – tracking the progress of your project. If you have a complex project that includes many technical steps, you’ll want to be able to have a formal system that tracks accomplishments, allows you to make adjustments along the way, and can help you set priorities.

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Resource: The Role of Statistics

In the Narrative Statistics series of posts, I’m exploring different ways to characterize fiction using statistics. I’m recovering from a flu or cold as well as a nasty cough that followed, so instead of delving into deep math, I want to review what I see as the role of statistics, at least for this series.

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Resource: Comparing Geographic Visualizations to Network Visualizations

…The point here, though, is not to focus on individual technical solutions but to emphasize the necessity for creators of network visualizations to open a dialogue about standards and practices as well as expectations of visual literacy of their audience. As the tools to represent and manipulate networks become more common, the level of fluency with network representation has begun to highlight the low level of visual literacy among typical observers who try to “read” such representations.

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Editors’ Choice: Some Things to Think About Before You Exhort Everyone to Code

…Here is the real point I’m trying to make here: It is not about “should.” What women should do has nothing to do with it. The point is, women aren’t. And neither, for that matter, are people of color. And unless you believe (and you don’t, do you?) that some biological explanation prevents us from excelling at programming, then you must see that there is a structural problem.

So I am saying to you: If you want women and people of color in your community, if it is important to you to have a diverse discipline, you need to do something besides exhort us to code.

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Resource: QTIP software: analyze image collections with the speed of the light

QTIP is a free digital image processing application. It was developed by Multimodal Analysis Lab and National University of Singapore) and Software Studies Initiative at University of California, San Diego. Download it from software page of our lab blog. Use it to process your image collection and then visualize the collection with our free ImagePlot tool.