R is a statistical package used by many digital textual analysts to explore aspects of styelometry. Here at IU, we have an instance of the popular Rstudio running on Karst to facilitate work on large corpora. However, it is often helpful to begin work with a small test set (sometimes even a single...
CartoDB is a free, cloud based tool for mapping and data visualization. This workshop will take you through the steps of creating a map, including uploading and editing data, styling your map, and publishing. CartoDB can manage a myriad of data files and types, just drag-and-drop. Their library has...
Indiana University
Wells W144 (Learning Commons Classroom, SE corner)
Big data, big history, distant reading, the return of the longue durée—digital scholarship in the humanities favors large-scale and long-term approaches. Using data-driven methods, we can now explore texts and sources at previously unimaginable magnitudes, but do these experimental avenues of...
HASTAC CONFERENCE 2015 Indicative of the robust range of possibilities for employing the digital humanities within Ancient and Medieval scholarship, this panel brings together scholars working in several fields who use a digital component as part of their approach to pedagogy, collaboration, or...
As academics and educators, we are encouraged to actively participate in public conversations about policies, social and economic issues, and environmental concerns. For a growing number of academics, social media offers exciting new op-portunities for public engagement. Yet we have also witnessed...
In this workshop, we’ll be learning about the online publishing platform, Scalar . Scalar can be used to author all kinds of born-digital documents and embeds many kinds of media quite easily. The platform is built to support multi-authored documents and provided for reader commentary and...