ggplot2 is a widely used r package to visualize data. It provides many different commands to present various visualizations of the data, and it is also quite flexible to adjust if there’s any change need to be made. For example,… Continue Reading
Today, I am going to write a basic introduction to Github, not just for programmer but also for digital humanists. We have seen Github pages several times either in class activity or during the homeworks. As a strong advocate of… Continue Reading
Project Gutenberg is one of the greatest digital libraries you can find on the internet, with over 60,000 free ebooks created entirely by volunteers. It hosts the world’s great literature with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has… Continue Reading
What is sentiment analysis? Sentiment analysis is the process of extracting a particular mood (typically on the scale of positive to negative) from a piece of potentially subjective text. It is pervasive in the corporate world as a way to… Continue Reading
For my final project, I came across a great way to create interactive images of all kinds. Image mapping is a somewhat ancient method of making interactive images or fields of a webpage. In my final project for class, I… Continue Reading
Omeka is a content management system and web publishing platform designed specifically for Digital Humanities, which can store and organize metadata. This platform is mainly used for building collections of a set of data and then organized into different categories. Most… Continue Reading
QGIS is a tool used as a geographic information system (GIS) software to analyze and edit spatial information and create graphical maps. It is similar to ArcGIS, but QGIS is considered more reliable and is much faster in speed. There… Continue Reading
What Is ArcGIS? (And a Modern Example for Usage) ArcGIS StoryMaps is an immersive storytelling platform. The user can integrate text, photos, videos, and other multimedia to thoughtfully create context for a web map, thus forming narratives that can both… Continue Reading
As the class has learned in this term, Voyant Tools is a text analysis tool that has the ability to analyze any number of texts, including some samples in its own database. In this tutorial, I’ll do an extension of… Continue Reading
Group: Tunnel Exploration Team (MJ wanted this name) To begin with our project, we went through the Digital Collection of the Carleton Archives. From this source, we were able to compile a collection of photographs of the tunnels and the… Continue Reading
