Resources

Explore our video tutorials on the basics of data collection and data cleaning using Excel; OpenRefine, a quick way to make common edits to a lot of Excel data at once; and RStudio, a programming language to clean and manipulate data.

We strive to use open source programs that are supported by a community of users and are typically free or low cost to use. Check out our full explanation on Network Analysis, Text Analysis, and Basic Data Visualization.

New to DH and want to start small? Check out our teaching resources and learn new methods

For large projects that require additional hands, infrastructure, or collaboration a grant might be necessary.

Visit the following granting agencies to view options that might fit your goals

National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Or contact the Sponsored Projects Administration at UGA to identify additional funding resources

Make an appointment with the Digital Humanities Coordinator to go over options and decide if a grant is the way forward for you.

Video

• Watch this video to see Joey Stanley’s Brand Yourself workshop.

Take control of your online presence and get ready to hit the job market by creating a unified digital narrative.

Blog

• Check out Joey Stanley’s blog to see his notes on the workshop.

Presentation

• Download the Brand Yourself workshop PowerPoint.

Whether you’re applying for a job in academia as a professor or an alt-ac (alternative academic) job be prepared for the complexity of the job market

• Learn more about what’s posted in your field and about the market as a whole Academic Jobs Wiki
• For sample job materials visit Humanities Commons
• Use a dossier system that works for you
  • Interfolio
  • ChronicleVitae
  • Arguments for and against dossier systems

Data Viz Lab – Georgia Tech’s tutorials on data visualization including tutorials on Tableau, Python, and D3

Programming Historian is a directory of different lessons on R, JavaScript, Python, mapping and more. These are all tailored to the humanities.

Methodica Commons – Digital Text Methods site that offers tutorials, programming scripts etc for analyzing text.

DH Toychest – Curated by Alan Liu, the DH Toychest offers a list of DH tools, sample datasets for practice, tutorials, and a wealth of other information and resources.

• Chrome has a plugin called WebScraper that makes it easier to scrape websites and to bypass any coding. Follow the instructions on the website to download the plug in and it might be good to watch the intro video on the same page. This will allow you to get a feel for the plug in and how it works. Click here to see how to use this plugin and the Cite maps.