In the Aftermath of Notre Dame, How Can Digital Art History Help?
By Bethany Farrell On Monday the images of Notre Dame’s spire and ceiling aflame were too horrific for me to really look at. I couldn’t bare to witness the fall of the... The post In the Aftermath of...
View ArticleTeledildonics in the Media: A Voyant Analysis of Journalism on Virtual Sex Toys
By Urszula Pruchniewska In 1991, technology writer and critic Howard Rheingold wrote his influential book Virtual Reality, in which he chronicled his encounters with researchers working in the...
View ArticleMaking ‘Old School’ 3D Images: Renaissance Sculpture Techniques & Photogrammetry
By Megan Reddicks Pignataro It comes as no surprise to us today to hear that an upcoming blockbuster movie to hit the big screen will be offered in 3D. Does our experience... The post Making ‘Old...
View ArticleDisaggregating Copyrighted Corpora: An R Script for Extracting and...
By Jeff Antsen Intro The field of Text Data Mining (TDM) offers tools for identifying interesting and meaningful themes in written language. Some of these themes might be accessible for the average......
View ArticleRhetorics of Care and Madness: Nursing Mental Illness and Disability, 1880-1925
By Elizabeth White Vidarte Introduction: Tracing the Roots of Modern Psychiatric Care Tracing the roots of modern psychiatric care turns out to be far more complicated than traditional accounts of...
View ArticleCorpus Construction in HathiTrust: Collecting Etiquette Books, Conduct...
By Laura Biesiadecki The Digital Decision During the 2019-2020 academic year, I’ll be working as a Graduate Fellow in the Scholars Studio, exploring etiquette books in the interest of identifying the...
View ArticleThe Art of Inclusion: Water – People – Architecture
By Homa Parmar Introduction I am an Architecture major studying Urban design and Ecologies. As a graduate student at the Loretta. C. Duckworth Scholars Studio for the academic year, 2019-2020, I...
View ArticleMeasuring the Impact of Built Environments on Health: Gathering Data from...
By Huilin Zhu Introduction My project aims to study the relationship between built environments and health outcomes, specifically excess weight in Pennsylvania. My primary research question is: Does...
View ArticleTo Code or Not to Code: Project Design for Webscraping YouTube
By Nicole Lemire Garlic Introduction The prospect of coding in YouTube webscraping projects can be both daunting and exhilarating for academic researchers. Coding can give you more flexibility, power,...
View ArticleLaunching a DH Podcast: Our First Episode
Laura Biesiadecki (Pod)Casting Your Net I love a good podcast, I really do. And though it’s safe to say that the proverbial podcast pond is amply stocked with shows about everything and... The post...
View ArticleMeasuring the Impact of Built Environments on Health Part II: Use of Transfer...
By Huilin Zhu Introduction My project aims to study the relationship between built environments and health outcomes, specifically overweight in Pennsylvania. The main innovation of my research is to...
View ArticleIdentifying Similar YouTube Videos by Comparing Metadata in R – Part I
With 91% of millenial and Gen-Z viewers on YouTube, non-profit organizations are increasingly promoting positive social change through compelling videos uploaded to the platform─a practice YouTube...
View ArticleCoding with Keras for Transfer Learning: Measuring Impact of Built...
By Huilin Zhu My digital project’s research question explores how the built environment affects people’s health, especially in terms of weight, in the state of Pennsylvania. In order to consistently...
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