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Job: Cultural Analytics or Digital Literary History, Washington University

As part of a broad initiative in Data Analytics and Digital Technology, Washington University in St. Louis seeks a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Cultural Analytics or Digital Literary Studies (start date July 1, 2021). Depending upon research area and educational background, the primary appointment will be […]

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Resource: Digital Ottoman Studies, A New Force in Ottoman and Turkish Studies

In early 2021, a new platform, Digital Ottoman Studies (DOS), was established with the aim of contributing to digital humanities from the perspective of Ottoman Empire and Turkish studies. The Istanbul-based project facilitates data access for researchers by collecting projects, archives, databases, manuscript collections, events, and more through an English and Turkish-language website. The platform […]

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Job: Digital Humanities Research Facilitator, University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara is one of ten campuses that comprise the University of California system data Services, the Digital Humanities Research Facilitator is responsible for the planning and implementation of scholarly initiatives in support of data-intensive research and digital scholarship in the humanities on campus with the goal of ensuring the high […]

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Resource: How to calculate a rolling average in R

Rolling or moving averages are a way to reduce noise and smooth time series data. During the Covid-19 pandemic, rolling averages have been used by researchers and journalists around the world to understand and visualize cases and deaths. This post will cover how to compute and visualize rolling averages for the new confirmed cases and […]

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Report: Report from Spring 2020 Executive Roundtable on Acquiring Instructional Materials

On March 30-31, 2020 as part of the CNI Spring virtual Member Meeting, we held two convenings of an Executive Roundtable on strategies for acquiring instructional materials; this included both open educational resources and “inclusive access” type arrangements. It also discussed experiences in providing instructional materials support for the sudden transition to remote instruction that […]

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Resource: Making a GitHub Diagram

From the resource: You know how to use a computer, right? Obviously that’s true since you’re reading this, but that doesn’t mean you know how a computer works. You probably have some idea that electricity, circuits, binary and other computer stuff are working together to make the thing run, but for most people there is […]

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Report: Workshop on “Digitisation Workflows & Digital Research Studies Methodologies”

From the report: Earlier this year I was given the opportunity to attend a workshop on “Digitisation Workflows & Digital Research Studies Methodologies” held at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India. The workshop, which was held on the NCBS campus in the northern part of Bangalore, was jointly organised by Tom […]

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CFP: Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference

From the CFP: We are delighted to invite proposals for the inaugural Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, which will take place at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut on February 28-29 2020. CT DH endeavors to bring together a network of DH practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the New […]