Digital Humanities

• ArcGIS Explorer Online
  Connect people, locations, and data using interactive maps. Work with smart, data-driven styles and intuitive analysis tools. Share your insights with the world or specific groups.
  • Overview
  • Resources
  • Sample Maps
• Chronos Timeline
  HyperStudio’s Chronos Timeline is designed specifically for needs in the humanities and social sciences to represent time-based data.
  • Overview
  • Projects
• Gephi
  The leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.
  • Feature Highlights
  • Quickstart Tutorial
• Neatline
  A free, online tool for creating interlinked timelines and maps as interpretive expressions of the literary or historical content of archival collections.
  • Overview
  • Demos
  • Tutorial
• Palladio
  Visualize complex historical data with ease.
  • Overview
  • Tutorials and FAQs
  • Testimonials
• Stackla
  Discover, manage and display the most engaging visual content across all your marketing touchpoints with Stackla’s AI-powered enterprise platform.
  • Introduction
  • Case studies
  • Learn More
• Tableau Public
  Tableau Public is a free data visualization software. It allows users to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web.
  • Overview
  • Resources
  • Gallery
• TagCrowd
  A web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud or tag cloud.
  • Overview
  • Tutorial
• Tiki-Toki
  Online timeline maker software for creating beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the web. Tiki-Toki’s free account lets you create a fully-functional timeline that you can share with friends and colleagues.
  • Introduction
  • Sample Projects
  • Tutorials
• Timeline
  An open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet. Experts can use their JSON skills to create custom installations, while keeping TimelineJS’s core functionality.
  • Introduction Video
  • Sample Projects
  • Tutorial
• TimeMapper
  An open-source project of Open Knowledge Foundation Labs. Create elegant timelines and maps in seconds.
  • Get Started
  • Tutorials and Examples
• Voyant
  Voyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis environment. It is a scholarly project that is designed to facilitate reading and interpretive practices for digital humanities students and scholars as well as for the general public.
  • About
  • Tutorial
  • Gallery
• Online Course in Data Visualisation for Professionals (University of Edinburgh): https://datavis-online.github.io/
• https://d3js.org/
• [Visual+Interactive Data Group](interactivedata.github.io) https://github.com/topics/interactive-data-visualization

For geographical data:

http://mapinseconds.com

Geographic Profile Maps: https://goo.gl/images/qyR1yn (from Google images)

Analyzing Minard’s Visualization of Napolean’s 1812 March: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/analyzing-minards-visualization-of-napoleons-1812-march (Thoughtbot.com)

DATA-BASES

LibreBase

DB Browser for SQlite

MySQL Workbench

CDCS: Silent Disco: Cleaning Data with OpenRefine

Silent Disco: Cleaning Data with #OpenRefine Learn the principles of #data cleaning, as well as how OpenRefine can be used to perform four essential tasks that will help you to clean your data. Fri 15 Apr, 14.00-16.00 Sign up: https://cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/silent-

WEB SCRAPING

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CDCS: Web Scraping with Rvest This workshop will introduce attendees to conducting web scraping with the Rvest package in R. It will cover the concepts and various social science applications of web scraping. Fri 29 April, 14:00-16:00 https://cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/web-scr

WEB DESIGN

Silent Disco: Getting started w/ #Markdown w/ @lucia_michielin Using the @ProgHist

Markdown tutorial, you’ll discover what it is, find out why it’s used, how to format files, & how to preview Markdown-formatted documents on the web. Fri 6 May, 14:00-16:00

Omeka (web for visual achives)