Scalable Reading of Structured Data
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In this lesson, you will be introduced to ‘scalable reading’ and how to apply this workflow to your analysis of structured data.
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Introduction to Map Warper
ENThis lesson from Programming Historian introduces basic use of Map Warper for historical maps. It guides you from upload to export, demonstrating methods for georeferencing and producing visualizations.Interrogating a National Narrative with GPT-2
ENIn this lesson, you will learn how to apply a Generative Pre-trained Transformer language model to a large-scale corpus so that you can locate broad themes and trends within written text.Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 1)
ENThis is the first of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. Using a dataset of historical newspaper advertisements and the fastai Python library, the lesson walks through the pipeline of training a computer vision model to perform image classification.Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 2)
ENThis is the second of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. This lesson digs deeper into the details of training a deep learning based computer vision model. It covers some challenges one may face due to the training data used and the importance of choosing an appropriate metric for your model. It presents some methods for evaluating the performance of a model.Regression Analysis with Scikit-learn (part 2 - Logistic)
ENThis lesson is the second in a two-part lesson focusing on regression analysis. It provides an overview of logistic regression, how to use Python (Scikit-learn) to make a logistic regression model, and a discussion of interpreting the results of such analysis.Regression Analysis with Scikit-Learn (part 1 - Linear)
ENThis lesson is the first of a two-part lesson focusing on an indispensable set of data analysis methods, logistic and linear regression. It provides an overview of linear regression and walks through running both algorithms in Python (using Scikit-learn). The lesson also discusses interpreting the results of a regression model and some common pitfalls to avoid.Displaying a Georeferenced Map in KnightLab's StoryMap JS
ENIn this lesson from Programming Historian, you will learn how to display a georeferenced map from Map Warper in KnightLab's StoryMap JS, an interactive web-based map and storytelling platform.Finding Places in Text with the World Historical Gazetteer
ENResearchers often need to be able to search a corpus of texts for a defined list of terms and historians are often interested in certain places named in a text or texts. This lesson details how to programmatically search documents for a list of terms, including place names and then how to obtain coordinates and map historical place names with the World Historical Gazetteer.