Intro: SketchUp and 3D Basics
In the spirit of learning by making and diving in head first, we are starting with some relatively easy 3D modeling. This course's collective projects in the past have revolved around Carleton's built environment and building histories, and fabricating...
WordPress 101 — is blogging still a thing?
Digital Humanities as Community, or Making Relationships
Debates over the definition of the Digital Humanities are by this point very clichéd , to the point that many people have begun arguing that we stop worrying about it altogether. There ...
Analyzing DH Projects
Today we are going to dive into what Burdick et al. call "The Basic Unit" of Digital Humanities, the project . We will examine the various component parts and learn how to analyze them effectively.
One of the most common reactions to seeing finished...
Web Development Fundamentals
HTML/CSS 101
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the bedrock foundations on which the world wide web (and therefore most digital humanities projects) are based.
HTML provides the basic structural markup that tells your browser what to do...
Humanities Data: Data Structures, Metadata, Clean, Tidy, and Smart Data
The Database Back End
In our continuing quest to explore what goes on “under the hood” of digital humanities projects, we are moving from the front-end client-side user experience to the database “back end” on the server side, where all the data st...
Data Visualization
This week we are going to explore the basic principles, and some concrete examples, of data visualization. You might think that data viz is something only scientists and quantitative social scientists are allowed to do, but there are an increasing...
Text Analysis and Network Analysis
For today’s class, we are going to start by generating our own qualitative survey data set that we can use to try out some network analysis for homework.
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Spatial Humanities: GIS/Mapping 101
Spatial Humanities
For the next two weeks we will be exploring the spatial humanities — a vibrant and increasingly popular area of digital humanities research. Humanities scholarship is currently undergoing a “spatial turn” akin ...
Web Mapping 101
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of web mapping tools and platforms. These tools have long allowed the simple display of and basic interactions with spatially referenced data, but until recently, if you wanted to do any sort...
Virtual Humanities: Immersive Environments and 3D Simulation
Immersive environments are one of the newest areas of DH experimentation. 3D simulation, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality were until recently only accessible with high end hardware and produced end products that were so large they were hard to deliver...
Analog to Digital and Back
In groups: spend 5 minutes exploring one of the following 3D modeling/printing projects below or the Book of Fortresses and Battle of Mount Street Bridge projects I asked you to explore and read about for today:
Loveden Hill Cremation Urn Virtual...
Final Project Work Session
First, congrats on completing your midterm mini-projects! They look great so far and I’ll be giving you detailed feedback by Thursday, posted in Moodle.
Second, I have commented on each of your group posts on this website with some suggestions f...
Tutorial Assignment
Assignment Tutorial Blog Post (Due Thursday, 3/3)
For this assignment, create a step-by-step tutorial as a blog post demonstrating a particular technique, tool, or other helpful how-to discovery you’ve made over the past several weeks in this c...
Tutorial Demo and Final Project
Agenda:
Tutorial Lightning Round
I will share my screen and click through the tutorials in the order posted. Give us a <1 minute overview of what you wrote about.
Tutorial Feedback
Take 20 minutes to do 2 tutorials and leave a comment...
How do you copy and paste entire 3d figures and space them out on intervals? I am able to do this with 2d shapes but cannot do so with 3d figures. The fundamental issue is how to select 3D figures… how can this be done?