DTU skills training

DTU skills training on “Digital Source Criticism” 30-31 October, 2017 Historians of the 21st century need to be aware of how the transformation from analogue to digital affects the epistemological value and appearance of a source. The traditional way of questioning the authenticity of a document by finding out who created it, at which time, … Continued

DTU skills training on “Database Structures” 16-17 November, 2017 What are (big) data? What are databases? What are database structures? What can we do with them? This skills training provides an introduction to different database systems and applications, and how to work with them in historical research. The training day offers an introduction to hand-curated … Continued

DTU skills training “Introduction to Programming” 4-8 December, 2017 This workshop provides an introduction to computational text analysis with Python for scholars in the Humanities. Computational text analysis has gained popularity across different fields in the humanities, with successful applications such as computational authorship attribution, personality detection, linguistic profiling, and topic modelling. The goal of … Continued

DTU skills training 'Data Visualization'.

The objective of this skills trainings is to make students familiar with ‘Algorithmic Critique’ as an important skill in Digital History and Humanities research. Specifically, the training provides an introduction to optimisation, search and decision problem modelling. Various solving techniques based on exact methods (A*, B&B, LP), approximated ones (heuristics, meta-heuristics, problem relaxation) and hybrids … Continued

Today historians, geographers and social scientists and like have at their fingertips a myriad of digital resources (digital born or digitised). They may be formal or informal datasets  open  for public use or held behind closed doors, but common to all is the implicit or explicit geographical information that they contain. Thus, they are ripe … Continued

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Where? Digital Historical Cartography (practice) Teachers: Sam Mersch, Kaarel Sikk & Jan Lotz Students will learn about QIS as an open-source GIS tool and its usage, while creating maps and visualising geographically relevant data.