by Tom McGee | Nov 18, 2016 | Tools
In working with Nathan Kahl on his Digital Humanities Faculty Fellows project, I came across an online service from Meaning Cloud that was really helpful. Here’s a primer on how you can get started, and some of the kinds of results you can get back from it....
by Tom McGee | Nov 9, 2016 | Tools
I found this to be incredibly useful when I needed to get coordinates for a set of hundreds of addresses. The original is from policeanalyst.com, with instructions updated for Excel 2013 from http://grindgis.com/. The process involves adding a new item to your ribbon...
by Tom McGee | Oct 11, 2016 | Examples
This year’s Visualized conference happened Thursday, October 6, at The New School in New York. We had a full day of presentations by leaders in the field, and some of them were really inspiring. Here’s a few of the best. Nick Felton Pictures, Not Pixels...
by Tom McGee | May 24, 2016 | Tools
To work with the original version of VisualEyes, start by creating an account, and then building a project. The tutorial for building a basic map and timeline from scratch is available here. Other resources, including full documentation, is on the visualeyes.org web...
by Tom McGee | May 24, 2016 | Presentation, Tools
From Tuesday’s session, here’s the Data, Data and Data Top Level in PowerPoint form. The Data, Data and Data, showing examples of some Excel functions for dealing with XML, how to generate geolocations and more. There are three data sets available to...