Overview of the Fall 2017 Python Open Labs Python Open Labs reconvened in September with three new DSSC interns. Unlike my colleagues studying Computer Science and Computer Engineering, I am a Human Rights Masters Student at SIPA/ISHR. While we come from different backgrounds and levels of expertise in Python, this semester has been both productive […]
R Open Lab: Looking Back and Moving Forward
In the past academic year, I worked as a teaching intern with the Digital Social Science Center and Digital Science Center, hosting R open labs and workshops. Most of the people at R Open Lab are using R for their research projects; therefore in the past semester, I tried out several different teaching practices in search […]
Python Open Labs – Spring 2017
Hi This post details my experience as a Digital Science Center Teaching Intern for the Spring ‘17 semester, wherein I hosted the weekly Python Open Labs to teach programming with python. This internship is my first full fledged teaching experience where I got complete freedom to choose the topics that I introduced during Python Open […]
Muggles Speak English. Pythonistas Speak Python.
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, […]
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 […]