Time for the real meat of your project! What is the answer to your research question(s)? One of the hazards of doing a project like this during a short amount of time is that you don’t always have time to… Continue Reading
In the DH world, there is no hand-waving about *how* you did something. DH projects are encouraged to fully document and share the process and methods that were used to produce a result or visualization. Documentation of your process is… Continue Reading
Your project should include some type of data visualization, if not multiple visualizations. As we’ve learned, data viz can be exploratory or explanatory. Exploratory data visualizations can be used to help you learn more about your dataset. Where are the… Continue Reading
Here’s the deal. The thing that makes archival materials so captivating is also what makes them challenging to work with in a computational way. By their very nature, archival sources are unique. Tremendous amounts of time and labor are necessary… Continue Reading
Time to get those ideas on paper! Your project pitch should outline the topic, sources, and approach you think you’ll take for your project. This is not a formal proposal and your project will evolve with time, but the more… Continue Reading
Good collaboration doesn’t just happen! It takes open and sometimes difficult communication. One way to take the trouble out of group work is to talk about the issues at the very beginning of your project. In the DH world, this… Continue Reading
This week, we finished our research and exploration phase and actually began assembling our project, which is super exciting! Since our last update, group 2 has been focusing on developing our data visualizations for our WordPress site and uploading archival… Continue Reading
For all of the members of my team, this week has comprised collecting and documenting sources for the next database-development and textual analysis steps of our project. Each member selected either two or three colleges from among our collective six… Continue Reading
The “Trends” tab offered to users by Voyant documents the frequency of words used by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel The Great Gatsby in each of the book’s ten segments. Three of Fitzgerald’s most commonly used words are the proper nouns… Continue Reading
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