Category Archives: Session Proposals

Proposals for unconference sessions from THATCamp participants.

TALK/MAKE – What are the odds: Big data meets political science and they go to the races

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Stephen Lindsay

‘What are the odds?’ (WATO) was an interdisciplinary collaboration between political scientists and human-computer interaction researchers at Swansea University to try to bring elements of big data to the world of political forecasting. The project used page scraping to gather … Continue reading →

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TALK/PLAY – TextLab Project in Practice

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Rebecca Russell

TextLab is a Vertically Integrated Project at the University of Strathclyde involving students from the English Literature department and the Computer & Information Science department. We use tools like: AntConc (www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/), a freeware text analysis toolkit for concordancing and text … Continue reading →

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TEACH/PLAY – Scaling Up Impact

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Julie Weeds

Researchers in every field are being made increasingly aware of the need for their research to have impact. However, often researchers don’t realize where beyond their own field of study their research might have impact. How does one go about … Continue reading →

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MAKE – Digitising a single day

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Adam Crymble

The theme of this event is ‘scale’. Lately in digital humanities, we’ve tended to think about big scales – big data, longue durée. But what about the very small? In this session, I propose that we work together to ‘digitise’ … Continue reading →

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TEACH/PLAY – Treating BMD data as a ‘(semi-)closed set’

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Richard Light

Starting from 1837, the GRO Civil Registration index provides a nominally complete record of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.  The FreeBMD project has transcribed the vast majority of this material (up to 1983, when the GRO register … Continue reading →

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TEACH – Open Source Personal Digital Archiving

Posted on February 15, 2016 by James Baker

SESSION REQUIREMENTS If you intend to come to this session and want to do this work on your own laptop, please make sure you do the following in advance of coming to Sussex (it may be possible during but the … Continue reading →

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