Games – Horizon Report 2011
I’ll be co-presenting the introduction of the gaming portion of the Horizon Report at ELI 2011 with Libby Evans from UNC. I’m posting the notes here so everyone will have access to the links of...
View ArticleVisualizations and Art
I’ve been seeing a lot of interest and examples of data visualization coming via the blogosphere. Stanford has released Data Wrangler in alpha, open source Gephi is in beta, and Google is not...
View ArticleSony Readers
This semester we lent Sony Readers to a senior seminar in German to see if students would find them useful. It was a small class of only 7 students. In addition to the size, we chose them because the...
View ArticleWilloughby Workshops
We had our annual “Willoughby Week” of workshops for a small group of faculty. Notes from each of the sessions are below. Delicious, Twitter, and Google+ Introduction to Digital Storytelling ( DS...
View ArticleCiv IV Modding, step by step
The worksheet walks you through step of a creating a historical scenario in Civ IV. It starts with the capabilities provided by the World Builder GUI interface then moves into editing XML files to...
View ArticleSocial Media
While several campus organizations such as WDCV and the college farm use Facebook as a way interacting with the community, Dickinson faculty make greater user of Twitter. Some of our favorite...
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Mixxer Visualization with Gephi – Languages by Messages
How it was made I exported a csv from the database with three columns: native language of sender, native language of recipient, and date. I installed and used this tool, Eonydis....
View ArticleNotes for Digital Humanities
Below is a list to the notes of past trainings we’ve done in the Willoughby that are likely to be useful for those considering or starting in the digital humanities. Blogs, RSS & Collaborative...
View ArticleNMC Emerging Leader 2013 Proposal
The rise in the number of MOOCs in the past year has been nothing less than astounding. Perhaps even more surprising is the uniformity of the structure used by 99% of these offerings: videos of...
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Atlantic Slave Trade
Learn About Tableau Data from Atlantic Slave Trade Database, http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/databas…
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Digital Humanities Authors
Data extracted from Google Scholar via “Publish or Perish” program. 1000 authors who matched phrase “digital humanities”. Node size is based on their article with largest citation number. Edges created...
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Dickinson Study Abroad
Dickinson study abroad, Fall 2013 and Academic Year 2013-2014 Nodes are either majors or locations. Edges are created by each major going to a destination. Size of node determined by connectionss...
View ArticleWilloughby Workshops
Next week we’ll have our Willoughby workshops, a week of hands on practice for faculty to use and discuss technologies that can help with their teaching and/or research. Most of our notes, as always,...
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Bubble Chart Tutorial
Select your x axis, y axis, bubble size and set colors to unique. If we use # of immigrants and unemployment rate for each axis, we’d expect to find a correlation, so bubbles should move from lower...
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