Independence Day Inquiries

Over the past week, we have been working on a class project reviewing the American holiday of July 4th, also known as Independence Day. This project viewed articles in the Idaho Statesman published on July 4th and 5th between the years of 1900-1950. After saving these articles, the next task was to use Adobe Acrobat Pro to …

Playing in DiRT

This week we were introduced and asked to explore the opportunities that DiRT Directory has to offer! Essentially, DiRT Directory is a tool box full of digital research tools that make it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from designing a website to preserving data. After some …

Coding and DH Advancements

Hi ya'll! This past week I played around with different tools and programs to learn coding and web page construction. Below is my attempt at using what I learned with HTML tutorials and W3 Schools. Page Title Heading Paragraph. Adding another paragrpah for fun and practice. This was simple, easy to understand, and not to …

Mining for Words

Over the last week and a half, we've explored the method of text mining in multiple ways in class and on our own. Essentially, text mining "is the analysis of data contained in natural language text." This method allows researchers to analyze texts or large amounts of data to discover interesting patterns and extract useful knowledge using …