Embracing Complexity. Craving Simplicity
More a caution than a critique, I was fascinated and left to ponder Peter Liu’s time-based spatially informed map presented in the MapBox Blog this week. I think that the[…]
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Talking TimeMapper
Upcoming workshop at UCD this Thursday will explore how to use OKFN’s spatial temporal visualisation tool. “TImeMapper is open source, powerful software that offers you a unique and effective way[…]
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Looks Very Promising: Histograph
Spotted this in the DHAwards 2016 list of nominees : Histograph. Not to be confused with histograph.io. Histograph does a variety of things, primary amongst these is providing a graphical[…]
Using Open Refine
This tutorial will lead you through an exploration of OpenRefine and demonstrate how it can be used to interrogate and clean your own dataset. It freely acknowledges the wonderful introductory tutorial: Seth[…]
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Using Onodo to Learn Network Analysis and Visualisation
During our seminar on Network Analysis and Visualisation in DH6010/6019 this past semester as a group we enjoyed a case study involving network analysis of the Star Wars characters presented by Evelina Gabasova (http://evelinag.com/blog/2016/01-25-social-network-force-awakens/index.html#.V7Mn5WXi-f4). She does a[…]
Using Onodo to Learn Network Analysis and Visualisation
During our seminar on Network Analysis and Visualisation in DH6010/6019 this past semester as a group we enjoyed a case study involving network analysis of the Star Wars characters presented by Evelina Gabasova (http://evelinag.com/blog/2016/01-25-social-network-force-awakens/index.html#.V7Mn5WXi-f4). She does a[…]
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Using Trello for Team Process Management
Just delivered a short workshop providing an overview of how to conceptualise and implement the commercial software platform Trello into a collaborative academic workflow. Trello offers an intuitive and scalable means[…]
Looking Back and Counting Forward
So what about these hexagons? IS this the new digital Giant’s Causeway? They were all the rage during the UK General Election last year – to the extent that the[…]
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Google, Alphabet and Digital Scholarship
The last workshop of the season concluded the Digital Humanities Initiative at Queen’s sponsored by Special Collections in the Library. Today’s topic: Google Tools for Digital Scholarship – brought me[…]
Reflecting on the Breadth of DH Development at Queen’s
I was asked to ponder what the Digital Humanities initiative at Queen’s had accomplished over the past two years. I think it’s a great idea to reflect occasionally on where we have[…]