When? 11.-15.5.2015
Why? To enhance multidisciplinary working culture in the field of digital humanities, bringing together people from different backgrounds.
How? Group work on four different data sets within five days peppered by different introductions to digital humanities and lightning talks. For description of data sets and outline of the schedule, click
Organizers:
Team leaders:
Storify by Tanja Säily:
Blogs by Anni Aarinen:
Blogs by Jessica Parland von Essen (In Swedish):
Blog by Tuula Pääkkönen (In Finnish):
Work undertaken by the groups (missing links will be updated asap, so visit later):
ENGLISH 18TH-CENTURY LETTERS
Blog:
Research plan:
Presentation of the work:
Code (plots, shinyapp, AntConc results, docs, experiments, etc.):
FINNISH SOCIALIST NEWSPAPERS
Blog:
Research plan:
Presentation of the work:
Code (plots, word clouds, time series matrices, etc.):
FINNISH TECHNICAL JOURNALS
Blog:
Research plan:
Presentation of the work:
Code (plots, maps, exploration of Zipf’s law in the corpus, etc.):
MULTIMODAL INFLIGHT MAGAZINES
Blog:
Research plan: Multimodality
Presentation of the work:
Code (utility first, tools for analyzing images & scraped texts, good-old hackish bash, etc.):
Examples of Research in the Digital Humanities by Eetu Mäkelä:
Hands-on method tutorial by Eetu Mäkelä:
Guest speakers during the Hackathon:
Public presentation of works:
Some lessons to be learned from the hackathon: cultural change takes time, multidisciplinary work is hard but rewarding, digital humanities will not save the planet & the world and the digital cannot do without the humanities.