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Google Fusion Table Basics with IU’s Cushman Collection
I’ve used Indiana University’s Cushman Collection of photographs before, in my Palladio tutorial. Google Fusion tables, though, is a slightly simpler way for people to get started with data visualization. So here’s a quick tutorial that uses the same data to create a map and some simple charts. You can also download this tutorial as a PDF…
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A fun way to introduce DH students to dataviz
As a teacher, I’ve always operated on the assumption that students are primarily interested in each other. Here’s a fun activity that takes advantage of that interest to teach students a little about data visualization. It’s an extremely unscientific Cosmo-style quiz, designed to show students which interests they have in common with each other. It’s…
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Hackathon on Police Brutality, Feb. 14 at UCLA
I’m not organizing this event (Brittany Paris, of UCLA’s Information Studies department is), but wanted to give it my full support: A hackathon on police brutality data for L.A. County on Saturday, February 14, from 12 to 4 in the UCLA Decafe (1302 Perloff Hall). All are welcome. Register here.
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Getting started with Palladio
NOTE: Scroll down to get to the tutorial itself! Updated November 2015 for Palladio 1.1. If you’d like to use this tutorial in the classroom, or if you want to alter it and make it your own, there’s a version on Github you can do whatever you want with. Palladio, a product of Stanford’s Humanities…
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Here and There: Creating DH Community
Thanks a million to the University of North Texas’s Spencer Keralis for inviting me to come speak at Digital Frontiers, a great conference in Northern Texas! I’m having an excellent time. Here’s the talk I gave today. Around springtime, when universities are making offers for jobs that start in the fall, I tend to get…
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How Did They Make That? The Video!
After I wrote my original “How Did They Make That?” post, on some common types of DH projects, I got to thinking about whether there might be ways to help people reverse-engineer digital projects on their own. I used a talk I gave at CUNY as an excuse to think of some of these ways. This presentation, a…
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Reflections on my digital materiality and labor class
I was really glad to get the chance to teach a special topics course on Digital Labor, Materiality, and Urban Space last quarter. I’ve been thinking about this class for years, and the syllabus is the (imperfect) culmination of lots and lots of reading and thinking. In the event, the class was terrifically generative and…
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How Did They Make That? at CUNY, March 27, 2014
Here’s a list of links for my talk at the CUNY graduate center, for the audience members who’d like to follow along: My original “How Did They Make That?” post (with Dot Porter’s Zotero library!) UCLA Digital Humanities 101 Ben Schmidt, A Year of Ships University of South Carolina Digital Libraries, Negro Travelers’ Green Book…
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Commit to DH people, not DH projects
We’ve seen digital humanities in terms of “projects” since Roberto Busa indexed Thomas Aquinas. But lately it seems to me that the imperative to continuously produce something is getting in the way of how people actually think and grow. What if we viewed digital methods as a contribution to the long arc of a scholar’s…
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Advanced Scroll Kit Techniques: The Parallax Effect
My Digital Labor, Urban Space, and Materiality class will be using the drag-and-drop framework Scroll Kit to create multimedia “device narratives.” Here’s the tutorial I’ve created to teach them to use Scroll Kit. You’re welcome to download these instructions as a PDF or as a Word document, in case you’d like to modify them. This is my second Scroll Kit tutorial; the…