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Wrap-up
Max Kemman
University of Luxembourg December 20, 2016
Today
Final assignment
- About the tools
- About the assignments
- Course evaluation
- Next time
- Winter School
Wrap-up Max Kemman University of Luxembourg December 20, 2016 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Wrap-up Max Kemman University of Luxembourg December 20, 2016 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Wrap-up Max Kemman University of Luxembourg December 20, 2016 Doing Digital History: Introduction to Tools and Technology Today Final assignment About the tools About the assignments Course evaluation Next time
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Final assignment
Did everyone form a group of 3/4 yet? Any questions about the final assignment
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What I still have to do
ODS files
- Palladio
- Info on how to share and export
- Carto
- Info on how to create multiple layers
- Info on more powerful SQL
- Ensuring geocodes work with French/German computers
- Anything else?
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What did we learn?
We discussed
The preservation of everything
- Biases
- Digitisation and digital preservation
- Big data
- Correlation
- Distant & Close reading
- Hypercontextualisation
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About the tools
You have learned to write HTML, CSS, and some even SQL You have learned to work with Voyant Tools, Google Spreadsheets, StoryMap, Carto, and Palladio What did you think of all this?
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On working with tools
Was it interesting to write differently from a Word document, and try to embed visuals or interactive visualisations? Which tools did you like? Which ones didn't you like?
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On digital methods
What are key take aways from using digital methods as a historian? What were the main difficulties of doing this? Would you want to try more of this?
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About the assignments
What did you think about the assignments? What did you think about using 1 corpus, the Clinton emails, for all the assignments? Averages: 7,2 - 7,3 - 7,4 - 7,7
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Course evaluation
Please go to Moodle and take 10 minutes to evaluate the course with the provided form What is :D or :( or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Winter School
Skills in Digital Methods
Monday 20 - Friday 24 February Start Monday at 9:30 Databases for Young Historians Supported by Leonor Alvarez (Leiden Uni), Pim van Bree, and Geert Kessels (LAB1100) Requirements: recent version of Firefox or Google Chrome
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