Writing from grad school

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43 posts · 2013–2023
Feb 2014
Tutorial
Unexpected Challenges Result in Important and Informative Discussions: a transparent discussion about stripping content and stopwords

This post is the fourth in a set of 5 written by the Digital History Fellows at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The original post by Jannelle Legg can be found on the Digital …

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Feb 2014
Tutorial
Pre-Processing Text for MALLET

This post is the third in a set of 5 written by the Digital History Fellows at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The original post can be found on the Digital History Fellowship …

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Feb 2014
Reflection
Design Using a Grid

The reading for this week in _Thinking with Type _about grids was extremely interesting to me. The section about tables and grids in html particularly peaked my interest. I think the hardest part of …

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Feb 2014
Tutorial
Extracting Data from the THATCamp Database Using Python and MySQL

This post is the second in a set of 4 written by the Digital History Fellows at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The original post can be found on the Digital History Fellowship …

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Feb 2014
Reflection
Spring Semester in Research and a THATCamp Challenge

This post is the first in a set of 4 written by the Digital History Fellows at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The original post by Jannelle Legg can be found on the Digital …

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Feb 2014
Reflection
Typographical Design and Communication

This week’s materials on Typography were really interesting. I especially enjoyed Morris’s article “Hear, All Ye People; Hearken, O Earth.” I’ve always been interested in …

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Feb 2014
Reflection
"Building" in the Digital Humanities

This week’s readings, specifically Stephen Ramsey’s article “Who’s In? Who’s Out?,” really got me thinking about (again) about how Digital History is defined and …

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Dec 2013
Reflection
Reflections on the Public Projects Division

I’m all finished with my first semester in the PhD program at George Mason University. Below is a reflection on the time the Digital History Fellows have spent in the Public Projects Division at …

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Dec 2013
Reflection
Final Digital Scholarship Project

The final version of my Clio Wired Project, “Shifts in Physical Culture,” is online now. It has been quite the process getting everything formatted correctly–I realized after I …

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Nov 2013
Reflection
Shifts in Physical Culture: A Textual Analysis

My work of digital scholarship uses Topic Modeling to analyze a set of articles written by Sylvia Ullback, a beauty expert in the 1930s, between 1932 and 1937. Ullback’s articles shift during …

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