Formerly CrowdMap, Ushahidi is a software that crowdsources data to map and visualize information, patterns, and locations. Information can be added via avenues like the site, email, text, and Twitter. Ushahidi’s current usage is as follows. Ushahidi was created in… Continue Reading
Flourish is a web-based data visualization tool that allows users to create nice-looking, animated charts with minimal effort. Users can export the charts as images or embed them in their own websites. Flourish’s combination of customizability and usability offers a… Continue Reading
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
While mentioned in the Humanities Data Lab, we haven’t had the opportunity to use Timeline JS in class yet. It is one of my personal favorite tools for humanities assignments having used it both high school and at Carleton. The… Continue Reading
Flourish is a data visualization tool that has a variety of interactive graphs and maps. In addition to specialized methods of viewing the data such as a population pyramid for breaking down population statistics, more traditional types of graphs such… 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
