What do you know about text analysis (also known as text mining)? If you’re familiar with data mining, or extracting information or patterns from data sets, you can probably imagine …
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The Digital GC: 2016-2017 Year-End Showcase
The GC Digital Initiatives End-of-Year Showcase, which will feature presentations from different members of our Digital GC community, will be held Wednesday, May 17th from 4:15 to 6:15 p.m. in the …
Git Ready.
This week, I am teaching git and GitHub. In the workshop, I will cover some basic commands in this incredibly powerful software (git) and its incredibly robust hosting service for repositories (GitHub.com). …
Participation, Collaboration, and an Opportunity to Find Out How Much We Can Do
In our series of guest posts by #GCDRB participants, Dr. Lavelle Porter shares his experiences as a faculty member at our inaugural Digital Research Bootcamp. Lavelle is a graduate of …
Finding Digital Archives
Last time, I talked about some of the ways that scholars can get the most out of the search features of large collections of books that are available online. In …
Digital Tools for Qualitative Data Analysis
Interest in using digital tools in qualitative social science research is not necessarily new, but appears to be steadily increasing. For example, this year’s International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry has …
Getting the Most out of a Humble Technology: Word Search
While only some scholars in the humanities identify as digital humanists, the number of humanists who use digital tools in their work is much larger. Through the digitization of journals …
Speaking of ‘Speaking in Code’ (Part 2)
As noon approached, lunch beckoned and the discussion became atomic, situational, one-on-one. Folks began following each other on Twitter, gathering their thoughts, etc., and just then I heard fellow historian …
Speaking of ‘Speaking in Code’ (Part 1)
In early November I had the opportunity to participate in the Speaking in Code conference at the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a summit on the …
Community IT Centers and Organizing Women Workers in Gujarat, India
Project Name: Community IT Centers and Organizing Women Workers in Gujarat, India Grantee: Natascia Boeri Discipline: Sociology Funding Cycle: 2013-2014 Project Status: In progress About The Project This project will expand community IT centers developed …
