Data-Driven Scholar's Toolkit

Below is a large list of tools arranged by topic if you want to explore either familar tools or go beyond the scope of the course. You are free to incorporate any tool or resource for your projects. Links for online help, popular DH discussion spots, professional associations, journals, blogs, and applied historical tutorials all can help you forge your own path and grow as a scholar long after this class is over.

Online Tools

• Overview Docs - Text Analysis
• Voyant - Text Analysis
• Palladio - Data Visualization
• Raw - Data Visualiization
• Fusion Tables - Data Visualization
• Breve - Data Visualization/Cleaning

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Free/Open-Source Tools

• Coding
• Atom Text - Text Editor/IDE
• Data Scraping/Scrubbing
• Web Scraper - Data Scraping
• Open Refine - Data Cleaning
• Tabula - Data Scraping
• Modeling and Spatial Analysis
• Blender - 3D Modeling
• AwesomeBump - Texture and Bump Map Generator
• Make Human - Open Source 3D Character Maker
• Sculptris - 3D Sculpting Tool
• Google Earth Pro - Mapping
• QGIS - GIS/Mapping
• Networks and Prosopography
• Segrada - Historical Investigation Tool
• Gephi - Network Analysis/Data Visualization
• Graphics
• GIMP - Open-source Photoshop-like tool
• Inkscape - Open-source Illustrator-like tool
• MyPaint - Open-source painting tool
• Text Tools
• AntConc - Concordance and Corpus Analysis
• Paper Machines - Text analysis plugin for Zotero (see below)

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Commercial/Free Trial

• 123d Catch - Quick Photo-to-3D model tool
• SketchUp - 3D Design Tool
• Tableau Academic for Students and Teachers - Data Visualization
• WordSmith - Text Concordance Tool for Windows
• Zotero - Bibliography/Citation Manager

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Troubleshooting

• Google - Seriously
• Stack Overflow
• Python 3 Reference Documentation
• Digital Humanities Slack Channel

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Applying Programming to Historical Research

• The Programming Historian
• The Historian's Macroscope

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Blogs

• Miriam Posner
• Bethany Nowviskie
• Shawn Graham
• Scott Weingart
• Ian Milligan

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Journals

Debates in the Digital Humanities Digital Humanities Quarterly Journal of the Digital Humanities Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Digital Studies Digital Literary Studies Journal of Cultural Analytics Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy DH Commons Journal

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Organizations

Association for Computers and the Humanities

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