Python is one of the fastest growing programming languages, owing to its simplicity of syntax, varied applications ranging from simplistic tasks such as Hello World program to crunching huge amounts of data for multi-million dollar companies or numerous research and academic works. As more and more fields integrate computer science into their regular work flow, […]
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Digital Archives and Music Scores: Analysis, Manipulation, and Display
My project concerns the retrieval and display of digitally encoded music scores in existing archives and databases. While there are currently a great number of scores available in digital format, those formats differ, affecting not only their utility and but also their portability. I recently made an attempt at working around this portability issue while […]
Map Club: Reflections on Teaching Self-Teaching in Digital Scholarship
This academic year, through my internship with the Center for Spatial Research and the Digital Social Science Center, I aspired to demystify digital mapping. I formed a series of fast-paced hack sessions focused on play, exploration, and the rapid acquisition of skills. To evoke exploration and inclusivity, I named the series Map Club. Map Club represents an approach to learning. It seeks to hone the capacity to […]
A Medium-Scale Approach to the History of Literary Criticism: Machine-Reading the Review Column, 1866-1900
Book reviews in nineteenth-century periodicals seem like the perfect data for doing computer-assisted disciplinary history. The body of the review gives information about the words used by early generations of literary critics while the paratext provides semi-structured information about how these early literary critics read, evaluated, classified: they include section headings labeling the topic or […]
A Reflection on My Internship with DCIP
This fall semester I joined the Digital Center Intern Program(DCIP) as an instructor intern. My internship is primarily focused on developing lesson plans for and hosting weekly R Open Labs. This internship allowed me to try different teaching approaches and explore different topics about R. It was an intellectually challenging and rewarding experience. The highlights […]
Introduction to Semi-Automated Literary Mapping
Literary mapping presents exciting possibilities for criticism and the digital humanities, but it is hampered by a seemingly intractable technical problem. A critic interested in mapping must rely on either full hand-coding, which takes too much time and labor to be useful at scale, or full automation, which is frequently too imprecise to be of […]
Perceptual Bases for Virtual Reality: Part 2, Video
This is Part 2 of a post about the perceptual bases for virtual reality. Part 1 deals with the perceptual cues related to the spatial perception of audio. The chief goal of the most recent virtual reality hardware is to simulate depth perception in the viewer. Depth perception in humans arises when the brain reconciles […]
Automating the Boring Stuff!
Hey! I am Harsh Vardhan Tiwari, a first year Master’s student in Financial Engineering student, I am working on web scraping, which is a technique of writing code to extract data from the internet. There are several packages available for this purpose in various programming languages. I am am primarily using the Beautiful Soup 4 […]
Blog Post 2.0
Well, I am naming this as Blog Post 2.0, as there has been a serious revamping in terms of my project goals. Firstly, the work on 3D-modelling software is done. I will no longer be talking more about that. My whole focus will be on the data collection software, i.e. Suma. Oh wait, that’s off […]
App4Apis (Update)
Phase: Final stages of completion As we are going into the spring break, we want to the update the status of the project. Before diving into the details, a quick introduction of the project. App4Apis: A one stop solution to access APIs that are designed to take the parameters in the query and return a […]