Category Archives: Coding

Posts about markup, scripting, programming, and software development.

Scripting Languages for Humanists

Fred Gibbs has proposed a session on R for Humanists, and I’d like to propose a complementary session on scripting languages for humanists. Ruby and Python are popular among digital humanists for a variety of applications. These data munging data analysis natural language processing (with the Natural Language Toolkit) geocoding (I use ggmaps, but there […]

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Atoms to Bits and back again

There have been sessions at past THATCamps that have explored the use of 3D design to envision historical sites or perhaps to demonstrate relationships of words in a concordance or index. In those cases the examples in most cases were a transference of Atoms (papers, manuscripts, notes from conversations) to bits (program design, programming, data […]

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