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  • Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer

    EN
    A digital gazetteer records information associated with specific places. This lesson teaches you how to create a gazetteer from a historical text, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.
    Authors, editors, and contributors
    • Susan Grunewald
    • Ruth Mostern
    • Yann Ryan
  • Understanding and Creating Word Embeddings

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    Word embeddings allow you to analyze the usage of different terms in a corpus of texts by capturing information about their contextual usage. Through a primarily theoretical lens, this lesson will teach you how to prepare a corpus and train a word embedding model. You will explore how word vectors work, how to interpret them, and how to answer humanities research questions using them.
    Authors, editors, and contributors
    • Avery Blankenship
    • Sarah Connell
    • Quinn Dombrowski
  • Creating GUIs in Python for Digital Humanities Projects

    EN
    In this lesson, you will use Qt Designer and Python to design and implement a simple graphical user interface and application to merge PDF files. This lesson also demonstrates how to package the application for distribution to other personal computers.
    Authors, editors, and contributors
    • Christopher Goodwin
    • Yann Ryan
  • Making an Interactive Web Application with R and Shiny

    EN
    This lesson demonstrates how to build a basic interactive web application using Shiny, a library (a set of additional functions) for the programming language R. In the lesson, you will design and implement a simple application, consisting of a slider which allows a user to select a date range, which will then trigger some code in R, and display a set of corresponding points on an interactive map.
    Authors, editors, and contributors
    • Yann Ryan
    • Alex Wermer-Colan