The instructional resource of Voyant – Part 1 teaches beginners an important technology skill by clarifying the basic concepts underlying the default interface, and by providing a list of supplemental tools that may be added to the the default interface. A series of text analysis questions and Bloom’s Taxonomy may be applied for a specific learning purpose in Voyant – Part 2 and Voyant – Part 3.
Category: Resources
Using Voyant for text frequency analysis
Voyant is a free textual analysis tool that can be found online at voyant-tools.org. This instructional post describes how to use Voyant to do text frequency analysis. This includes using tools that Voyant offers as well as exporting data and analyzing it on a spreadsheet. The video also mentions the other capabilities that the website offers, and demonstrates where different elements can be found on the page. I used a recent project of my own to illustrate each step of the process.
Preparing Your Data for Gephi
[vimeo 126944806 w=500 h=282] This video is a tutorial about how to decide whether your source material and data are suited to Gephi, a network visualization tool, and how to format and otherwise prepare your data to be imported into Gephi. You can download Gephi at gephi.org, and view the tutorial I mention about manipulating your data once it’s…
How to “evaluate, value, and promote digital scholarship”
CUNY Graduate Center brought together five DHers to discuss “Evaluating, valuing, and promoting digital scholarship.” Where is the place of digital scholarship in the Teaching-Research-Service Triangle? Although everyone added to the discussion from their unique disciplinary perspectives, not all were able to propose methods for evaluating digital scholarship? Steven Jones answered the question by pointing to projects he has been…
“(How) Are Medieval Places Different From Ancient Ones: Thoughts on Digital Mapping the Middle Ages” – David Joseph Wrisley @ Columbia’s Butler Library
On the evening of April 22, I attended a lecture at Columbia University’s Butler Library entitled “(How) Are Medieval Places Different From Ancient Ones: Thoughts on Digital Mapping the Middle Ages.” The presenter was David Joseph Wrisley, Associate Professor of English at the American University of Beirut. He is currently on sabbatical from that institution and is a visiting scholar…
“When Big Data Slows Down: Digital Humanities and the Study of Roman Amphitheaters” (Dr. Sebastian Heath, NYU unCOMMON Salon, April 21, 2015)
Dr. Sebastian Heath, Clinical Assistant Professor of Ancient Studies at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, spoke at the last NYU unCOMMON Salon of the Spring 2015 semester on April 21, 2015. The topic of his talk was the DH methods by which he is attempting to enrich our understanding of leisure in the Roman Empire. But…
Theorizing the Web: Data Capture (The New School, November 16, 2014)
Theorizing the Web: Data Capture was a panel discussion held at The New School on November 16, 2014 as a part of the Digital Labor 2014 conference. The panel consisted of PJ Rey, PhD candidate at the University of Maryland; Melissa Gira Grant, writer and freelance journalist; Rob Horning, editor at The New Inquiry; and Sarah Leonard, senior editor at…
The Digital Caribbean: a Small Axe Event, Session 2 – Archival & Pedagogical Praxis (Barnard College, December 5, 2014)
Columbia University’s Small Axe project, designed to increase “social, political and cultural criticism” in the study of the Caribbean, hosted the inaugural Digital Caribbean conference on December 4th & 5th. The second session of this panel brought together seven academics all grappling with the issue of how digital humanities can address the diverse and widespread nature of Caribbean culture, its…
“Research Without Borders: Big Open Data” Sponsored by the Scholarly Communication Program and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University (The Faculty House at Columbia, December 4, 2014)
Title: Research Without Borders: Big Open Data Where: The Faculty House at Columbia University Sponsored by: Scholarly Communication Program and Data Science Institute at Columbia University When: Thursday, December 4, 2014 2:00 to 4:00 PM Speakers: David Wrisley, Jonathon Stray, Alice Marwick, and David Park (moderator) Hashtag: #rwob Last week at the Faculty House at Columbia University, three professors…
“Data as a Technical Superpower” with Hilary Mason (Barnard College, December 3, 2014)
Grab hold of your cape, because we all have the potential to be superheroes now. This was the message from Hilary Mason during her talk ‘Data as a Technical Superpower’ at Barnard College, Wednesday 3rd December. During an engaging, insightful – and often playful – lecture, Ms. Mason covered a range of topics related to what has become known as…