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Reading Review for September 23
This week’s readings brought text mining to center stage, with all its potential and pitfalls for historians. First, at Ted Underwood’s blog, we have a post that starts the conversation of where to...
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Reading Review – September 30
This week’s readings and video focused on Wikipedia and its place in historical scholarship. In Roy Rosenzweig’s journal article, “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past” he...
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Practicum – Wikipedia!
For the practicum this week, we looked at the Wikipedia history articles on the Weems-Botts museum, Scotchtown plantation, Valley Forge, Luke Skywalker, and the United States Army Women’s Museum. One...
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..,when you’ve been talking abut Wikipedia all through class and you later decide to go back and take a look at that Wikipedia page on that one relative. (Knowing there was a Wikipedia page was...
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Reading Review – October 21
This week, the readings focused on pieces of historical scholarship written on digital foundations. In “The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities”, William Thomas and...
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This week’s practicum focused on sites with visualization tools and projects – Many Eyes, Visual Eyes, and Wordle. Many Eyes is a project out of IBM and IBM Cognos where users can upload data sets and...
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This week’s readings focused on visualization tools and their advantages and limitations. The articles ranged from The Historian’s Macroscope giving a solid rundown on the various types of...
View ArticleReading Review – November 4 – Topic Modeling
This week we delved into the realm of topic modeling for data analysis. Before going into the articles themselves, let me just give you the definition I walked away with after reading. Topic modeling...
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Practicum – Game time!
This week, we’ve been looking at educational games with a focus on history from Playing History, a site with a compilation of history-based games with descriptions and reviews of games created by third...
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This week’s readings focused on video games and how players change them, the challenges of making a historical video game, and whether or not we should be looking at educational/historical video games...
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This week’s readings dealt with “scholarly communications” or more aptly, obstacles to those communications. Those obstacles range from dissertations being taken offline to ensure publishing contracts...
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Topic Modeling Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day” Columns
The Project Methods, Challenges & Lessons Learned Appendix The Project For my final project, I did a topic modeling analysis of Eleanor Roosevelt’s “My Day” column. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote this...
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