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Customize your network visualization
In my last post, I explained how you can visualize a network of film personnel (really, any kind of network) using Cytoscape. When I left off, we’d created a network visualization, but it didn’t look...
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Install WordPress on your Mac
This week, I’m teaching a Hack Your WordPress Theme workshop for Emory’s Digital Scholarship Commons. It’s fun (and not all that hard) to customize WordPress themes. The only problem is, in order to...
View ArticleEmbarrassments of riches: Managing research assets
Last updated May 15, 2013 There’s research, there’s writing, and then there’s that netherworld in between: wrangling all the digital files you gather over the course of your work. Digital files are...
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Research tools redux: What I use
Photo by pixelhut I posted recently about tools for managing a research workflow, and one of the points I made is that no set of tools will be right for everyone. I’ve tried and failed to foist my...
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Use Automator to combine your research photos into one PDF
By request, these are updated instructions for using your Mac to combine your research photos into a PDF. For more on digital research workflows, see here, here, and here. If you have a Mac, you own a...
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Very basic strategies for interpreting results from the Topic Modeling Tool
Written with Andy Wallace, with methods and ideas borrowed from Zoe Borovsky As Zoe Borovsky brilliantly demonstrated when she visited my DH grad class, topic modeling starts with the assumption that...
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Using Mozilla Popcorn Maker to Create an Interactive Video
I’ll be teaching a workshop on Mozilla Popcorn Maker soon and, as is my habit, I created this step-by-step tutorial. Here’s the tutorial in handout form as a PDF, and here it is in Word, in case you’d...
View ArticleA dead-simple weekly email: A little workflow for bringing people together
UCLA’s Digital Humanities program, which I coordinate, is interdisciplinary in the extreme. Unlike some other programs, which sit in English or History departments, UCLA DH is an entity unto itself: a...
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Basics of Creating a Scroll Kit Narrative
My Digital Labor, Urban Space, and Materiality class will be using the drag-and-drop framework Scroll Kit to create multimedia “device narratives.” Here’s the tutorial I’ve created to teach them to use...
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What’s in your conference travel bag?
Taken in a hotel room, appropriately. Iphone not pictured, since I had to take the picture somehow. Anyone else have a weakness for those “What’s in your bag?” features? My stuff is not nearly as nice...
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New tutorials on network analysis with Cytoscape
I find the Cytoscape interface more intuitive than Gephi’s, although in both cases, you need to have a basic understanding of key NA terms. For some reason I got it into my head to write a bunch of...
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