Jennifer Grayburn (Scholars’ Lab) has written a post about her experiences coding in PHP. In “Novice struggles and expert blindness: How my discomfort with PHP will make me a better instructor,” Grayburn talks about recognizing the “expert blind spot” through her work with the lab: I wonder if we should perhaps make this discomfort a ...

Lev Manovich (The Graduate Center, CUNY) wrote the first post in an upcoming series describing the interactive exhibition and web application On Broadway, which includes “660,000 Instagram photos shared along Broadway during six months in 2014; Twitter posts with images for the same period in 2014;over 8 million Foursquare check-ins, 2009-2014;22 million taxi pickups and drop-offs for al of ...

Chris Alen Sula (Pratt Institute) has written a post that provides a workflow for creating Lexis Maps in Tableau Public. Recognizing that Lexis maps have application beyond demography, Sula provides readers with step by step instructions for working in Tableau as well as tips and tricks for data preparation. Though few have heard of them outside of ...

Param Bedi, Matt Gardzina, and Emily Sherwood (Bucknell University) have written a post about the central role student engagement plays in digital scholarship at Bucknell University. Robustly defining digital scholarship “as any scholarly activity that makes extensive use of one or more of the new possibilities for teaching, learning and research opened up by the unique ...

Simon Tanner (King’s College, London) authored a post proposing three reasons why the much-debated Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) benefited Digital Humanities scholars: The framework recognizes digital humanities research resources The framework demonstrates that digital humanities “enhances the research environment” The framework shows that digital humanities “has impact” Tanner ponders whether research excellence can truly be measured, but reiterates that this ...