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Machine Learning for the Study of Literary and Historical Corpora

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York

Depending on participant interest, this workshop will discuss either (1) principal component analysis or (2) word embeddings as a technique for exploring large digitized corpora, with particular emphasis on applications to literary and historical study. The workshop will be conducted using Jupyter notebooks in Python. No prior experience with Python is assumed, but elementary knowledge [...]

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Intro to Networks

Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 606 144 West 14th, New York

This workshop will introduce participants to designing a network study, including data collection, analysis, and visualization. After an overview of network studies in the humanities, students will get hands on experience using Gephi, a free and open source software for network analysis and visualization. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptop with Gephi installed

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Making a Minimal Digital Edition of a Historical or Literary Text

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York

Learn how to make and publish an edition online of your source materials using Ed: A Jekyll theme, designed for documentary editors. Skill Level Beginner/Intermediate Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Mac or Linux Laptop

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Machine Learning: A Primer

CUNY Graduate Center, Room C196.05 365 Fifth Avenue, New York

In recent years we have seen words related to recent developments in computer science and technology, like machine learning, artificial intelligence or neural networks, be used increasingly in diverse fields of research and of the society in general. This workshop will survey basic concepts of machine learning. No specific background is expected. The goal is [...]

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Introduction to FromThePage

Fordham Lincoln Center, Room LL 306 113 W 60th Street, New York

FromThePage is an open-source platform for collaborating on texts, from simple, plain-text transcriptions to complex bilingual digital editions. The workshop will outline project steps, from collecting raw text images to producing searchable, exportable, indexed digital editions. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment & Software requirements Laptop

Free

Building Mobile Narratives and Games Using ARIS

Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York

ARIS is a user-friendly, open-source platform for creating and playing mobile games, tours and interactive stories. Using GPS and QR Codes, ARIS players experience a hybrid world of virtual interactive characters, items, and media placed in physical space. Visitor's will be required to sign in at the security desk. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements [...]

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Making Maps into Webmaps with Leaflet.js

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York

The workshop will introduce participants to one method of turning a map into a Web Map. The primary difference between a static map and a web map (in addition to the fact that one is on the web) is interactivity. We expect webmaps to respond to users by showing popups, highlighting features, or by being [...]

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Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to Build a DH Corpus

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York

Students will learn how to use common OCR software, including Tesseract and ABBYY Finereader, to build the text corpora they need to for common DH methods such as text mining, topic modeling, bibliographic visualizations, and text-as-data analyses. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements None

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Sustaining and Growing your DH Projects

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York

What does it take for a DH project to go from concept to community treasure? While some DH projects are purely experimental, many project leaders are eager to see their work grow and develop over time and become useful to a significant community of scholars and students. This workshop will introduce digital project leaders to [...]

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Physical Computing 101 with Arduino

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206 365 Fifth Avenue, New York

Join us for this absolutely no-experience necessary workshop to introduce you to the basics of using Arduino, an open-source hardware and software prototyping platform, so you can begin to consider and develop your own projects. In this course, we'll use critical experimentation as a way to think about interactivity in our computational world. *Room: TBA [...]

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