In the late 1600s, many people from the German lands in Europe immigrated to America and began to put down roots in southeastern Pennsylvania. As…
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The Art of Reading a Wikipedia Article
“Wikipedia” has largely become a household name, giving worldwide, free Internet-based access to information in areas as diverse as Aerial reconnaissance in World War I,…
A Beginner’s Introduction to Network Analysis with Palladio
Palladio is a free browser based network analysis and visualization tool. It is a good tool for beginners as it is more user friendly and…
A Beginner’s Introduction to Mapping with CartoDB
CartoDB is a free mapping tool that allows a user to plot place based data on an interactive geographic map (much like a Google map).…
A Beginner’s Introduction to Voyant
Voyant is web-based text-mining tool that allows a user to visually analyze a collection (which in Voyant is called a corpus) of text documents. It…
A Guide To Digitization
Digitizing (taking something from an analog format to a digital one) has become commonplace in today’s world. It is easy to snap a picture or scan…