The reading for this week in _Thinking with Type _about grids was extremely interesting to me. The section about tables and grids in html particularly peaked my interest. I think the hardest part of html and css is learning layout but I think a grid makes the whole idea of layout easier to understand. I’ve always used grids when I code, particularly I like the 960 grid system which makes layout very easy and allows you to work of a variety of grid layouts.
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This post is the second in a set of 4 written by the Digital History Fellows at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The original post can be found on the Digital History Fellowship Blog.
This week we’ve continued to work on building a python script that will extract all of the blog posts from the various THATCamp websites. As Jannelle described last week, our goal was to write a script that downloads the blog posts in plain text form and strips all of the html tags, stopwords, and punctuation so that we can feed it into MALLET for topic modeling and text analysis.
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This post is the first in a set of 4 written by the Digital History Fellows at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The original post by Jannelle Legg can be found on the Digital History Fellowship Blog.
The spring semester is here and the first year DH fellows have begun our rotation into the Research division of CHNM.
To get the ball rolling, we spent a week working through the helpful tutorials at theProgramming Historian.
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