Creating a Twitter bot is a great exercise for formalizing a simple concept in a concrete implementation. Some of the best bots demonstrate this simplicity: a nugget of an idea, with the nuance in the details. To implement a bot usually requires some programming, some data wrangling, and a server. However, it can be easier. By […]
This post is a continuation of Seth Bernstein’s ongoing work: I had a few people ask how I made the gulag videos–what kind of tools and time were involved. So this writeup is not about the gulag itself but about how I made the last map video. The last post was intended primarily as something I […]
Wrangling data into a shape that can be used to create visualizations is a huge problem with few available tools. Trifacta Wrangler is a powerful new tool that is free to use. Learn more here.
Since 2007, our lab has been visualizing large collections of cultural images. Being able to use the latest computer vision techniques for the analysis of image content is very exciting, but it also brings new challenges. Learn more here.
Network Analysis and visualization appears to be an interesting tool to give the researcher the ability to see data from a new angle. Because Gephi is an easy access and powerful network analysis tool, we propose a tutorial designed to allow everyone to make his first experiments on two complementary datasets. Access resource here.
Through the Public Library Partnerships Project (PLPP), DPLA has been working with existing DPLA Service Hubs to provide digital skills training for public librarians and connect them sustainably with state and regional resources for digitizing, describing, and exhibiting their cultural heritage content. Now at the end of the project, we’ve made this curriculum available in a self-guided version […]
Over 12,000 grant records dating from NEH’s first grant in 1966 (to the American Society of Papryologists) through 1979 are now available, making the full run of NEH’s grant-making history complete and publicly accessible. Read full post here.
In coordination with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and specialists at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, in addition to bepress, we have established the Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD). Read full post here.
Antony Groves has published a short guide on using Vine to disseminate library information. Read the full post here.
I wanted to explore Spotify’s metadata in a way that would model the interpretive messiness of generic categories. To do so, I built a program that bounces through Spotify’s metadata to produce multiple readings of the idea of genre in relation to a particular artist. Spotify offers a fairly robust API, and there are a number of […]
