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Resource: The Importance of Design Plans for Data Science
Since becoming a Data Fellow at the D-Lab, I have had the opportunity to assist many talented social scientists through the D-Lab’s Consulting service. A regular consulting request is to help with the research design for a new project. These requests are understandable. For empirical researchers, a high-quality research design makes or breaks a research…
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Report: A Novel Approach To Novels That Shaped Our World!
It is wonderful to be collaborating with Leeds Libraries on their online Games Jam this month, which is encouraging people to create playful interactive adaptations of books in the BBC’s Novels that Shaped Our World list. In my experience game jams are a brilliant way of bringing historic and literary digital library and archive collections…
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Announcement: Portraits in DH: Dr. Sylvia Fernández
Sylvia A. Fernández, Ph.D is currently a Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. She is a co-founder of Borderlands Archives Cartography, a member of Torn Apart / Separados, and team member and coordinator of the ongoing initiative of United Fronteras, as well as other collaborative…
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Editors’ Choice: Reconstructing Kalmyk Buddhist Monasteries through Digital Modeling
Simon Daisley is an independent researcher of Kalmyk Buddhism and a digital heritage practitioner based in New Zealand. Through a personal interest in Buddhism, particularly in the history of Buddhism in the Russian Empire and among the Kalmyk people, Daisley has been researching Kalmyk Buddhist monasteries (khuruls), especially those that were destroyed in the Soviet…
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Editors’ Choice: Noise in Creative Coding
Noise is an indispensable tool for creative coding. We use it to generate all kinds of organic effects like clouds, landscapes and contours. Or to move and distort objects with a more lifelike behaviour. On the surface, noise appears to be simple to use but, there are so many layers to it. This post takes…
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Resource: Your first computed visualization, or, how to use Python
There comes a time when using Word or PowerPoint or Excel is not going to be enough to create a visualization. There is simply too much to process or the envisioned result is too complex to do by hand. Then what? It’s time to learn a few more tricks. This is best done on something…
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Announcement: CNI Spring ’21 Meeting Videos and Slides Now Available
We are pleased to announce that all meeting materials are now available from the event website. Slide decks & videos have been added to individual project briefing and plenary pages; videos are also publicly available on CNI’s YouTube and Vimeo channels. Please feel free to share these resources widely! Read full post here.
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Editors’ Choice: Urban Patterns of Police Misconduct
Nightingale authors come from varied disciplines; I’ve seen articles by visualization scientists, sociologists, public health experts, applied ethicists, geographers, etc. This report and its accompanying infographics reflect a Venn diagram of many of those disciplines. The arrival of the trial of Mr. Derek Chauvin this month — in the city where I teach and write…
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Editors’ Choice: Behind every algorithm, there be politics.
In my first class in computer science, I was taught that an algorithm is simply a way of expressing formal rules given to a computer. Computers like rules. They follow them. Turns out that bureaucracy and legal systems like rules too. The big difference is that, in the world of computing, we call those who…
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Resource: Google Docs and OCR: Some Experiments Transcribing Japanese Language Texts
In the past year or so I have been seeing and hearing an increasing amount about the capabilities of Google Docs to transcribe scans in PDF format into editable documents. In the Digital Orientalist, Editor for Syriac Studies, Ephrem Ishac, has explained how to perform OCR on Syriac texts using Google Docs and Editor for…
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Job: Assistant or Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Pikeville
The University of Pikeville seeks an Assistant or Associate professor in Digital Humanities to collaborate with existing Humanities programs to forge a new interdisciplinary program in digital arts, rhetoric, media studies, and medical humanities. Applicants must either be ABD or hold a PhD or MFA in a Humanities or related Digital Humanities discipline at the…
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CFPapers: Pandemic Methodologies Twitter Conference 2021
In the past year, archives and libraries have closed (either permanently or periodically), non-essential international travel has been heavily discouraged or impossible, and anyone who can has been encouraged to work from home. In these circumstances, historians have had to adapt how they do research, perhaps relying more heavily on digital methods or developing more…
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Announcement: Planning the ACH22 In-person Conference
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the ways in which we work, collaborate and conduct research. While ACH had previously planned for the in-person conference to occur in Houston in 2021, the pandemic presented the organization with an opportunity to host its first virtual event, ACH21. The University of Houston (UH) and the diverse, inclusive communities…
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Announcement: Digital Humanities 2021
Day of DH 2021 will take place on April 29. The organizing committee this year is led by Loyola University Chicago and UCLA in USA, University of Guelph in Canada, and Università del Piedmont Orientale in Italy. Our theme this year is multilingual DH, and Digital Humanists from all corners of the world are encouraged…
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Announcement: UCLA researchers digitize massive collection of folk medicine
A project more than 40 years in the making, the Archive of Healing is one of the largest databases of medicinal folklore from around the world. UCLA Professor David Shorter has launched an interactive, searchable website featuring hundreds of thousands of entries that span more than 200 years, and draws from seven continents, six university…