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Digital Humanities Research Infrastructure For Teaching

  • Workshops
  • Glossary

Command Line Workshop

  • Learn common commands to create files (`touch` and `echo`)

Data Ethics

  • Know the stages of data analysis
  • Understand the difference between proprietary and open data formats

Introduction to Git and GitHub

  • Learn what Git, GitHub and Markdown are, how do they differ, and how they can be integrated to support your scholarly work
  • Learn what version control is and why it can be useful

Introduction to HTML and CSS

  • Familiarize yourself with the anatomy of a webpage and how the Internet works.
  • Understand the basics of the HTML and CSS markup languages.

Introduction to R

  • Familiarize you with R language
  • Understand R syntax, logic, and

Mapping Workshop

  • Become familiar with fundamental mapping concepts, such as how spatial data is organized and displayed.
  • Distinguish among two different forms of spatial data—vector data and raster data.

Introduction to Python

  • Understand what Python is and, in general terms, what it can do.
  • Run Python programs, both by interacting directly with the interpreter and by preparing and running scripts.

Text Analysis Workshop

  • How to prepare texts for computational analysis, including strategies for transforming texts into numbers
  • How to use NLTK methods such as `concordance` and `similar`
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The Digital Humanities Research Institute is funded through a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and with support from The Graduate Center's Provost's Office.