Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research workshop was organized as a part of New York City Digital Humanities week in February 2017. The workshop took place in NYU Bobst Library. In the workshop NUY Data Service specialist Sarah DeMott demonstrated how NCapture can be used for collecting data from different social media services, such as Twitter and Facebook, and how…
Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Data Analysis at NYCDH Week 2017
In her chapter in Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, Caro Pinto discusses the evolution of the traditional solitary work of humanities scholars to the collaborative nature of the majority of digital humanities projects. Pinto cites consortiums such as the Tri-Co Digital Humanities Initiative and Five Colleges DH as particularly successful examples of cross-institution…
NYCDH Week 2017: “The Pedagogy of DH: A Conversation” with Kimon Keramidas and Marion Thain on Friday, February 10, 2017 at NYU’s John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program
On Friday, February 10 at 10am, Kimon Keramidas and Marion Thain held a conversation on the Pedagogy of DH in response to a lack of pedagogical discourse in current digital humanities conversations. This event was part of a series of workshops during NYCDH Week 2017. Kimon and Marion began the conversation with detailing the structure of their respective DH courses, which emphasized how inherently interdisciplinary DH is, and demonstrated effective pedagogical approaches. Attendees were then encouraged to join in the conversation where the importance of collaboration was explored, approaches to assessment from critical reflective thinking to aesthetic , and best practices for incorporating DH without technical or institutional support were highlighted.
“Introduction to Scalar” with Shawn Hill at Fordham University
On Tuesday, February 7, Shawn Hill taught a workshop entitled “Introduction to Scalar” at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus. Scalar is an interactive online publishing platform that allows authors to develop several paths of reading for their users. This platform offers new methods of publishing information, no longer limited to a single, linear reading but instead open to forks in…
Machine Learning: A Primer: A DH Review
Machine Learning: A Primer Speaker: Achim Koh CUNY Graduate Center Today, many critics push to make our algorithmic world transparent, to remove the cover on “black box” machines and expose and deconstruct the systems by which these computers run. The scope of this feat, itself, appears daunting, algorithms lain in dense webs and expressed in arcane and protected jargon, yet…
Skillshare: .CSV to MySQL database
[vimeo 195745074 w=640 h=400] .CSV to MySQL import from John on Vimeo. Link to GitHub Repository This video demonstrates the process of formatting a .csv file, with data in it, for proper insert into a MySql database. The tools needed to carry out this process ars: A free copy of libreoffice (we will be using “Calc”). A free copy of…
Protected: A Small Place: A Literary Timeline of the West Indies
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Protected: Grant Proposal – The Annotated Paston Letters
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Protected: New York Public Library Initiatives in Makerspaces, Publishing, and Community Creation
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Visualizing Poetry: Multivariate Data Analysis with Poem Viewer
[vimeo 195401136 w=640 h=360] Introduction to Poem Viewer Poem Viewer was developed by a multidisciplinary team of computer scientist, linguist, poets, and literary scholars at the University of Oxford and the University of Utah under the Digging into Data Challenge. It is an in browser tool that supports close reading through multivariate data analysis. Users are able to visualize, interact…