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Experimenting with DH: A Beginner’s Workshop

Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York

For the DH-curious, this workshop will cover finding and arranging open access historical data for experimentation with visualization tools. Tips and tricks for searching and extracting data from the Internet Archive and the HathiTrust Digital Library will be demonstrated, along with sharing best practices for organizing different types of data. Participants will experiment with the [...]

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Intro to Omeka

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. This workshop will explain the basics of why and when to use Omeka and include a walkthrough of how to use Omeka to manage online collections and create digital [...]

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Planning and Prototyping a Digital Humanities Project

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

In this workshop, we'll cover how to plan and prototype an online, interactive digital humanities storytelling project. The planning phase will include rapid sketching, user experience methods, and two ways of working: from big picture to details, and details to the big picture. We'll investigate which method is appropriate in typical digital humanities circumstances. The [...]

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Design-Based Thinking for Humanists

NYU, Great Room 19 University Place, New York

Iterative. Practical. Critical. Accessible. Sound familiar? Design-based thinking and DH are a natural fit. This workshop will offer you tips for increasing creativity and leveraging design strategies in your humanities research. Join us to learn best practices for using design thinking to create engaging experiences, build new audiences, encourage conversation and inquiry, and boost the [...]

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Advanced Omeka

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

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER Building on the Introduction to Omeka workshop, this workshop will show you how to gain greater control of your Omeka installation. Participants will learn the difference between different deployments of Omeka, how to manage your own hosted Omeka installation, and how to use plugins, themes, HTML, CSS, and PHP to customize [...]

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Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research

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

Interested in incorporating social media content into your qualitative research project?  This workshop will introduce the basics of using small-scale web scraping of social media for qualitative analysis.   Using NCapture, a web browser extension, and NVivo, a qualitative analysis software package, this session will focus on methods to incorporate the context from web pages, online [...]

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Making the Most of Text: Using a Text-only Workflow with Markdown and Pandoc

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

Participants will be introduced to the reasons for considering a move from proprietary software like MS Word to text-based workflow, including preventing future obsolescence. They will get an introduction to the simple and popular markup language Markdown. They will learn to create word-processing documents with headers, links, images, tables and footnotes. Finally they will be [...]

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Digital Mapping for JavaScript Novices

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

JavaScript is one of the most popular and ubiquitous programming languages in history. Because every web browser speaks it, it's worth knowing at least a little bit when doing any kind of web-based DH work. This workshop takes JavaScript novices (and those with more experience) and introduces them the language with the goal of making an interactive web map using [...]

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Dealing with Messy Data using Open Refine and other tools

Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 612 144 West 14th, New York

The raw data received or compiled for an analysis project is often messy, inconsistent, or in the wrong format. Learn how to use Google Open Refine and Microsoft Excel to transform data into the structure you need to conduct analysis and successfully complete your project. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptop with Open [...]

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Introduction to Information Security

CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201 365 Fifth Avenue, New York

This workshop will cover issues of data security. What does it mean for data to be "secure"? What is data encryption? How might you begin to protect yourself from data surveillance, reconsider data storage, and think about personal privacy in an age of internet research? This workshop is designed for someone who has never really [...]

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