The Rice Digital Humanities (DH) group, in partnership with the Center for Research Computing (CRC), Fondren Library and the Humanities Research Center (HRC), will continue its series of hands-on workshops this spring semester. In these workshops, we will introduce you to the basics of supercomputing, 3D modelling, web scraping and more.
- Web Scraping and Using API’s to Make Your Own Big Dataset
February 8, 12-1 p.m., DMC MPR (basement of Fondren) - Virtual Machines and Cloud Computing
February 21, 2018, 3-4 p.m., DMC MPR (basement of Fondren) - Intro to Tableau
March 2, 10-11:30 a.m.
Fondren Collaboration Space
REGISTER - Storing (and Using!) Large Datasets on Rice Services
March 5, 2018, 12- 1 p.m., DMC MPR (basement of Fondren) - Supercomputing Basics
March 22, 2018, 3.p.m., DMC MPR (basement of Fondren) - The Absolute Basics of Jupyter Notebooks
March 23, 2018, 10 a.m.
Fondren Collaboration Space
REGISTER - Welcome to Rice’s Visualization Lab
March 26, 2018, 2 p.m.
Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories
306 – Visualization Lab - 3D Object Modelling
March 29, 2018, 2:00 pm
Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories
306 – Visualization Lab - Retracing Itineraries, Mapping Architecture
April 5, 2018, 1 p.m.
Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories
306 – Visualization Lab - Intro to Effective Data Visualization
April 6, 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
DMC MPR
REGISTER - 3D Procedural Models for Archaeology: Magnesia and the Roman City Ruleset
April 19, 2018
Keith-Wiess Geological Laboratories
306 – Visualization Lab
In addition, check out the Data and Donuts series, which features workshops on visualizing, organizing and documenting data. This spring the University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage project is hosting an exciting series on Digital Humanities & Social Justice. Finally, Rice’s Spatial Humanities Initiative Lecture Series is bringing some excellent speakers to campus.
Updated 1/31/18
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