Tech/IT 101

A category which might be useful to some ‘Normal Humanists’ on their way to becoming Digital Humanists, but containing tips which are not typically DH, like image manipulation, practical tips on “How do I make an academic poster (without having to learn LaTeX)” etc. These usually stem from friends asking me to explain something and I don’t want to have to explain it 20 times, so I put it into a post, so other people can profit from it too. Having to explain Tech 101 which is not actually related to my DH work is also a fundamental part of your work as a DH person. Sometimes it’s annoying to “be that guy” who has to explain tech stuff I am not getting paid to explain to you guys, but I try to embrace it and that’s why I make use of these occasions to share those (still very valuable) tips with all of you.

However, I’m not sure whether “Tech 101” is the best title for it. Kind of suggests some more ‘techie’ kind of stuff ;) Please let me know if you have any better ideas.

30. October 20193. November 2019

Algorithms, Variables, Debugging? Intro to Programming Concepts

Since I am about to prepare a workshop on natural language processing and a pre-workshop-workshop where I need to quickly/crashcourse introduce my (non-digital) Classicist friends to some basics on programming, let me share a list of programming concepts I compiled with you. I would be happy for your suggestions and comments regarding mistakes. I will probably publish this together with some key concepts of quantitative text analysis (blogpost to come) on a cheatsheet or as slides for you later 😉 Intro to key concepts of programming This list of concepts is not super-structured and meant to work as a ‘reference tool’ as well as a text to be read, so I tried to give it a more or less useful ‘chronology’, meaning that later parts kind of build on earlier ones. I start off with what a computer program or algorithm actually is and how we translate between source code (the code we write) and the code which gets fed

17. October 20193. November 2019

Academic Posters – How to design: My favourite tips

This is a post dealing with some simple tips to keep in mind when making academic posters. I have gotten into the habit of not posting very regularly over my fellowship this summer, but I will get back into the rhythm of approximately one post a week 😉 So I decided to give you a quick post with some tips on academic posters here. There will be follow ups on how to make them either using GoogleSlides (if you’re really stressed and can’t learn LaTeX first) and another version where I explain how to create a poster in LaTeX using an Overleaf template for complete beginners. So, without further ado. How to get a nice poster without a lot of skills and little effort: Have a color scheme. Probably best start with your project colours (from the logo, project website) if you have some. This ensures you have some sort of brand identity and your project is recognized more easily.

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8. June 20193. November 2019

Two basic image manipulation life-savers

In this post, I wanted to share a few tricks for simple image manipulation (with the goal of making pictures

LaTeX Ninja'ing and the Digital Humanities

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Tech/IT 101

Algorithms, Variables, Debugging? Intro to Programming Concepts

Academic Posters – How to design: My favourite tips

Two basic image manipulation life-savers