Intro: 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 and Metadata
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
Today 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 number...
Text Analysis and Network Analysis
Computer-assisted text analysis is one of the oldest forms of digital humanities research, going back to the origins of “humanities computing ” in the 1940s. Computers are well suited to data mining large bodies of texts, and with the...
Archives Project: Modeling Objects and Photogrammetry, Part 1
Last week, you got a brief introduction to digital collections and metadata through the collection management program Omeka and our sample site featuring archive objects. Today, we are taking a deeper dive into the Carleton College Archives to begin...
Virtual Humanities: Immersive Environments and Photogrammetry, Part 2
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
3D Printing and Fabrication
One of the biggest advances in recent years has been the democratization of 3D fabrication through consumer grade technologies like 3D printers, CNC routers and mills, and laser cutters. These tools allow digital 3D models...
Spatial Humanities: Historical Mapping 101
Spatial Humanities
This week 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 to the q...
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...
Cleaning Messy Data and Timeline Visualization
We've talked a lot in this course about messy data and the different benefits of tidy, clean, smart, big, etc. data. As you begin working on your final projects, you'll no doubt find or create some messy data that will need cleaning. Today, we'll practice...
Midterm Exam
Your midterm exam will test and review the technical skills you have acquired to date. You’ll be expected to take a new dataset and turn it into a mini one page digital project by doing the following:
(The exam will begin in class, be open-book &...
Final Project Work Session
Taking Stock of Assignments
First, congrats on completing your midterm mini-projects! They look great so far and I’ll be giving you detailed feedback ASAP, posted in Moodle.
Second, I've thrown a lot at you this term, in a different format t...
Tutorial Assignment
Assignment Tutorial Blog Post (optional, for make-up credit )
For your final blog post 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 p...
Final Project Work, Part II
Your Projects
Your final project URLs are up and can be accessed at https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/
Note: To login to your site, go to your URL and add "/wp-admin/" to the end (ex. https://hh2023f.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/wp-admin/)...
