Resource: LGBTQ Video Game Archive
The LGBTQ Game Archive documents the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer content in games. Find it here: Resource: LGBTQ Video Game Archive
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Resource: Developing A Photogrammetry Toolkit For Rapid, Low Cost And High Fidelity 3D Scans
From the resource: As a current PhD student in the Communications Cultural Studies and New Media Program at McMaster University, my research revolves around the application of new media to create personal archives for individuals or relatively small communities, groups and peoples, primarily marginalized populations, including: ageing populations, people of colour, indigenous peoples, people with […]
Resource: A Digital Archive of 1,800+ Children’s Books
From the post: Of the adult literary imagination of the time, Leo Bersani writes in A Future for Astyanax that “the confrontation in nineteenth-century works between a structured, socially viable and verbally analyzable self and the wish to shatter psychic and social structures produces considerable stress and conflict.” I think we can see a similar conflict, expressed […]
Resource: 2,000+ Early Modern Paintings Now Free Online
From the post: Georges Seurat, Henri Rousseau, Giorgio de Chirico, Auguste Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh — all of us associate these names with great innovations in painting, but how many of us have had the opportunity to look long and close enough at their work to understand those innovations? To feel them, in other words, […]
Resource: Data Packages for DH Beginners
From the resource: I’ve written about this before: working in groups, my students are assigned a dataset at the beginning of the quarter. They learn how to work with it as the quarter progresses, doing a lot of secondary contextual research, interviewing an expert about it, manipulating the data, and finally building a website that […]
Resource: CARTOColors
From the resource: Picking colors is one my favorite things to do with visualization when I’m not in a rush for time. But when I can spare the minutes to pick and choose, it’s useful to have a quick reference. ColorBrewer is the go-to, but CARTOColors is a simpler take. It just shows you a […]
Resource: Which digital tool should I use?
From the resource: It can sometimes be overwhelming to decide which of the legions of digital tools out there are good for any given task, especially when you haven’t yet built expertise in the tools (or sometimes even the task). STEM people tend to lean towards the idea that the right tool is the one […]
Resource: Getting started with NoSQL for storing and retrieving data
From the resource: As a data journalist, I have been working with increasingly large datasets as my confidence has grown in programming and creating visualizations. Through my learning process, I have realized the pitfalls of some programs. Excel, for instance, is good for smaller datasets – which I’d define as under 10,000 rows or records. […]
Resource: Geocoding with R
From the post: In the previous post I discussed some reasons to use R instead of Excel to analyze and visualize data and provided a brief introduction to the R programming language. That post used an example of letters sent to the sixteenth-century merchant Daniel van der Meulen in 1585. One aspect missing from the […]
Resource: Kicking off the GCDI Sound Series – A Workshop on Sound
About the resource: Later today, I am teaching a workshop on sound, kicking off our new GCDI Sound Series. In the workshop I will review a variety of digital tools, techniques and concepts for recording, editing and sharing sound… Like the workshops led by previous Digital Fellows, my workshop is publicly available to follow online. Currently, […]