DH Resources

Introductions & General Tutorials

Textbooks/Introductions
- The Historian’s Macroscope
Tutorials
- The Programming Historian
Project Planning
- Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook

Tools
- Webscraper.io – Visual data scraping with a handy free Chrome extension
- Open Refine – Data clean mass operations, outstanding
- Tabula – Make CSV or Excel files from tables in any PDF
- Breve – Quickly scan your data to look for errors
Data Silos and Databases
- JSTOR Data for Researchers – Requests thousands of JSTOR articles for massed text analysis
Data Criticism
- Dylan Baker – Datasets Have Worldviews

Concepts
- Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
Tools
- QGIS – GIS/Mapping
- Blender – 3D Modeling
- Google Earth Pro – Mapping
- SketchUp – Introductory Architecture & 3D Design Tool
- AwesomeBump – Texture and Bump Map Generator
- Make Human – Open Source 3D Character Maker
- Sculptris – 3D Sculpting Tool

Tools
- Segrada – Historical Investigation Tool
- Gephi – Network Analysis/Data Visualization

Tools
- AntConc – Concordance and Corpus Analysis
- Lexos – Web Based Text Analysis
- Overview Docs – Text Analysis
- Voyant – Text Analysis
- WordSmith – Text Concordance Tool for Windows
Concepts
- Introduction to Topic Modeling – An Explanation of Topic Modeling
- The Revolution in Text Mining for Historical Analysis is Here – An Exploration and a How-To
Tutorials
- DH Conferences – Text Analysis with Voyant

Tools
- Tableau Academic – Data Visualization
- Palladio – Data Visualization
- Raw – Data Visualization

Art & Design
- GIMP – Open-source Photoshop-like tool
- Inkscape – Open-source Illustrator-like tool
- MyPaint – Open-source painting tool
- Paletton – Color palette designer, very useful!
Sound
- Audacity – Free sound editor/composer, widely used
- Drift4 – Audio transcription and pitch analysis tool
Media
- VLC Media Player – Open source player/editor for movies
Research/Writing Tools
- Zotero – Outstanding bibliography/citation manager
- Scrivener – Interesting non-linear writing composition tool
- JSTOR Text Analyzer – Scans a PDF for text topics and suggests further reading

Text Editors
- Atom Text – Text editor/IDE
- SublimeText3 – Text editor/IDE
Git Client
- GitHub Desktop – Simplest Git client
- GitKraken – More advanced/powerful Git client

Concepts
- Coderscampus – 5 Basic Concepts of Any Programming Language (Beginners)
- Tutorialspoint – General Concepts Across Languages (More Advanced)
Important Debates
- Why Code
  - Lee Ann Cafferata, “I Code, You Code, We Code… Why Code?”
  - Miriam Posner, “Some Things to Think About Before you Exhort Everyone to Code”
  - James Gottlieb, “Coding and the Digital Humanities”
Python
- Introduction and Tutorials
  - Codecademy – Introductory course for Python 3
- Python – Official Documentation
- Most Useful Internal Python Modules
  - os – Interact with the sysem, making paths, traversing directories, opening files, et.c.
  - csv – Rapidly read/write csv files to/from Python
  - json – Parse JSON data or convert Python data to JSON
- Most Useful External Python Modules
  - requests – Scrape html data as a string
  - beautifulsoup4 – Parse raw html into a Python object
  - SQLAlchemy – Fetch/retrieve database information
  - Pandas – Powerful statistical analysis with data frames
  - networkx– Quickly run network analysis
  - nltk & cltk– Natural language processing
  - matplotlib – Most important visualization package
Other
- Regex
  - AutoRegex – Automatically create RegEx patterns with plain language input