A very large forest
This week and next are text mining and topic modeling in the class on programming for historians. I’ve been reading around on both topics (I present next week, on topic modeling), and I keep shifting back and forth from “okay,…
Mapping Correspondents
When I started to think about trying to map the addresses (well, cities and states/countries) of the correspondents in my manuscript collection, my first visual was the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project, with the lines showing the to and…
What can web scraping do for me?
After last week, I was convinced that web scraping (especially with wget) was a nifty tool, but I wasn’t sure how useful it would be to me. After all, most of the data I’m working with and putting into my…
All Things are New in the Morning
I did no coding this past weekend. Saturday I read and did work for my other class (cholera and yellow fever!) and Sunday, despite the drizzle, I went out and enjoyed my favourite season of the year by picking apples….
Variable Overload?
Today I worked on the RUD in my database CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete). I was trying to get the RU to work. For the sake of efficiency, I put my desire to display sender and receiver on hold and…
Little victories
One little piece of sql code that I’d been trying to make work was bringing data into my join tables from the appropriate rows in the tables to be joined. After some struggles, I had success! The steps (and successful…
Parlez-vous code?
This semester I am continuing the trend of taking a digital (history) class. Although we’re calling it clio3, the name is properly Programming for Historians. The code and other work I generate will be going up in its own little…