My final project is a Commons website that compares my data project with another related project. Link to project: https://hashtagfeminism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/  

During our last class together, students spoke of their grant proposals, extensions of their data projects, and the digital archives or editions they planned to build. My final project, however, takes a more established route—a twenty-page paper—even as it explores how digital humanities methodologies like quantitative research and visualization afford literary scholars new opportunities to […]

I visited the Secure and Resist! CryptoParty at Eyebeam on Dec 3. CryptoParties are events, usually consisting of a series of workshops, that aim to introduce cryptography and related tools (like the ones used by NYT for confidential news tips) to the general public. My impression of the event I attended, as well as of […]

From December 12th to the 18th, I had the chance to volunteer as an editor-at-large for DHNow. Overall, it was a very positive experience—even though there were a few technical problems I kept dealing with throughout the process. I am not the only one who has brought this up, so I am not going to […]

I was going through my notes from the last couple days of the semester and I came across this article that Kelsey (I am pretty sure she was the one who brought it up) mentioned in class at one point about how the IDF is monitoring what Israeli citizens say on Facebook. As it turns […]

You all are probably already aware of this resource, but I don’t believe we’ve discussed the mapping project Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930. It is briefly mentioned in the HyperCities reading from earlier in the semester, but I wasn’t able to look at it in depth until recently. In addition to the project itself, an […]

On November 17th, I attended my last workshop for the praxis course, the GC Digital Fellows workshop on Natural Language Processing with NLTK. Below is a blurb on the session that can also be found here. “In this workshop, we will introduce the basics of working with the Natural Language Toolkit, (NLTK), a package for […]

My volunteer work for DHNow covered the week of Dec 12 – 18. It was a pleasant process overall, although there were some technical bumps now and then. I feel our fellow students have pointed out quite some of the technical issues, so just a few brief comments: As one can see in the Subscribed […]