Category: Georgia DH News

Source: GSU CURVE Blog
URL: Another Great Year for Our Research Data Services Team
The University Library’s Research Data Services (RDS) Team provided over 50 workshops for students, faculty, and staff over the last academic year, with a total of 320 attendees. They also conducted custom sessions for graduate students (152 total attendees) as well as custom sessions for the GSU College of Education & Human Development faculty and […]
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Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Exploring Network Models
Previous post: Creating a Network Graph There are any number of definitions for what it means to belong to a community. Usually, people are involved in multiple communities, but they have stronger ties to a few of those communities because they know more people in those communities than in the others. In terms of graph theory, a community has a more specific definition: a community is a subgraph where “the number of internal edges is larger than the number of external edges” (Fortunato and Hric 2016). The internal edges are the links that connect together nodes inside the subgraph, while external edges refer to the…
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Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Creating a Network Graph
Previous Post: Data Processing with NLTK From the ccp_people.csv file, we built a simple social network using Gephi. This was originally a undirected graph where each edge represented a connection that two people were in the same document. We first calculated all possible pairs within each document, and then all pairs between documents, and rendered them in Gephi. The graph ended up being too large to render, given that there were more than 18,000 pairs.  We initially built the network from pairs because our initial research questions focused on the relationships between individuals, rather than the relationships represented by the meetings.…
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Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Data Processing with nltk
The Python package, nltk, is a great starter kit for anyone wanting to learn natural language processing. It can easily perform functions in any text such as finding parts of speech, tagging entities of any kind (person, place, company, etc.), figure out the stem of a word, and so much more. In this project, I’ll focus on finding and tagging people, places, and/or corporations, also known as Named Entity Recognition (NER). NER problems can be broken down into two parts: detecting entities and classifying them into the kind of entity that they are (person, place, title, etc.). Another helpful way…
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Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Abolitionist Networks
For the past several years, the DH Lab has been working on a project, TOME, aimed at visualizing the themes in a corpus of nineteenth-century newspapers. In designing this tool, our central motivation was to be able to more clearly trace the various and often conflicting conversations about slavery and its abolition that were taking place in these papers, which spanned multiple audiences and communities. (More info here). Around the same time, a team at the University of Delaware launched the Colored Conventions Project, aimed at recovering the advocacy work performed at the Colored Conventions–organizing meetings in which Black Americans, enslaved…
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Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Networks of Freedom
For the past several years, the DH Lab has been working on a project, TOME, aimed at visualizing the themes in a corpus of nineteenth-century newspapers. In designing this tool, our central motivation was to be able to more clearly trace the various and often conflicting conversations about slavery and its abolition that were taking place in these papers, which spanned multiple audiences and communities. (More info here). Around the same time, a team at the University of Delaware launched the Colored Conventions Project, aimed at recovering the advocacy work performed at the Colored Conventions–organizing meetings in which Black Americans, fugitive…
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Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Vectors of Freedom
For the past several years, the DH Lab has been working on a project, TOME, aimed at visualizing the themes in a corpus of nineteenth-century newspapers. In designing this tool, our central motivation was to be able to more clearly trace the various and often conflicting conversations about slavery and its abolition that were taking place in these papers, which spanned multiple audiences and communities. (More info here). Around the same time, a team at the University of Delaware launched the Colored Conventions Project, aimed at recovering the advocacy work performed at the Colored Conventions–organizing meetings in which Black Americans, fugitive…
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Source: Atlanta Studies News
URL: Perspectives on City and Region at the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium
Perspectives on City and Region at the 2018 Atlanta Studies Symposium Editorial Staff Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+’://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js’;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, ‘script’, ‘twitter-wjs’); The sixth annual Atlanta Studies Symposium took place on April 20, 2018, at Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, where the first Atlanta Studies Symposium was held back in 2013. The full day of sessions capped by a rousing keynote lecture was the largest symposium in the event’s history. In the coming months, Atlanta Studies will be publishing video recordings of symposium sessions and blog posts and articles building on research presented at the event. The symposium’s location at a university just recently annexed by the City of Atlanta in a…
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Source: UGA Digital Humanities Initiative
URL: Brady Moore: first to graduate with a DH certificate
  Brady Moore finished his time at UGA with a BA in History and the first ever Certificate in Digital Humanities. Though History is already a rigorous discipline Brady chose to take on the additional certificate because he sees “DH…
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