by Tom McGee | Apr 3, 2017 | Tools
Slides (no notes, sorry) from a presentation about the online text-processing service MeaningCloud. MeaningCloud Slides
by Tom McGee | Dec 2, 2016 | Tools
Using Knight Lab’s “Timelines” product, you can easily create sliding horizontal timelines with popups, that include media and graphics. Here’s an example I put together in a few minutes this afternoon, a timeline of classical composers and...
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 | 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...
