Monthly Archives: November 2011

Embarrassments of riches: Managing research assets

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Miriam

Last updated May 15, 2013 There’s research, there’s writing, and then there’s that netherworld in between: wrangling all the digital files you gather over the course of your work. Digital files are often easier to deal with than stacks of … Continue reading →

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Install WordPress on your Mac

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Miriam

This week, I’m teaching a Hack Your WordPress Theme workshop for Emory’s Digital Scholarship Commons. It’s fun (and not all that hard) to customize WordPress themes. The only problem is, in order to really access the theme files, you need … Continue reading →

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Teaching HTML & CSS

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Miriam

This week I twice taught a two-hour workshop introducing Emory people (students, faculty, and staff) to the very basics of HTML & CSS. The workshop was called How a Website is Born: The Very Basics of HTML & CSS, and … Continue reading →

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Customize your network visualization

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Miriam

In my last post, I explained how you can visualize a network of film personnel (really, any kind of network) using Cytoscape. When I left off, we’d created a network visualization, but it didn’t look exactly terrific. Here’s how you … Continue reading →

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