15 November
10:00 - 14:30

Entry level course in Python for GW by DHLab – Hands-on training days for teachers/researchers

This entry level course in Python for teachers and researchers of GW consists of two hands-on training days. The course will be provided by scientific developers of the Digital Humanities Lab.

07 October
10:00 - 16:00

Basics of Statistics – Hands-on training day for teachers/researchers by Hugo Quené and Kirsten Schutter

In this one-day course, intended for researchers and teachers in the humanities, you will learn the basics of statistical data analysis.

03 December
15:00 - 17:00

Workshop OpenRefine platform

In this workshop, Frans de Liagre Böhl, data manager for the Faculty of Humanities, will provide a hands-on introduction to the OpenRefine platform. After this 2,5 hour session you will have enough experience to start using this tool. As a researcher, you will find that many of your sources come in forms and formats which

01 January
00:00

CDH training days for staff

‘Glad I now have a little more understanding of the programs, of what they can do and how they work.’ On 17 and 24 June, The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) organized the first two training days for staff in the DH Living Lab. Both courses on the basics of text mining and network analysis

29 October
15:00 - 16:15

CDH webinar: Beyond “Ctrl-F”: automating searches in large textual corpora

In this presentation, Dirk van Miert and Liliana Melgar demonstrate, with practical examples and hands-on activities, how to search simultaneously in a large number of digitized texts (captured from Google Books and other online sources).

28 May
15:00 - 16:15

CDH Webinar: ‘Mediating sustainable cities: a methodological approach’, presented by Paola Monachesi

Dr. Paola Monachesi presents a podcast series under development focusing on her research which takes a media and communication approach to urban sustainable development. It focuses on social behaviour analysed on the basis of communication arising from social media data.

24 June
09:00 - 16:00

Training day with Joris Veerbeek: Text analysis

In this course on you will learn the basics of text mining, by performing such analyses using the popular and user friendly programs AntConc and Stylo in R. These tools will be demonstrated using a large dataset of literary reviews. Admission is free, but the number of participants is limited, so please register as soon

17 June
09:00 - 16:00

Training day with Joris Veerbeek: Network analysis

In this course you will learn the basics of network analysis: you will learn to perform such analyses using Gephi, to interpret network statistics and to create insightful network visualisations. You will also be able to work with your own dataset. Admission is free, but the number of participants is limited, so please register as

17 May
15:00 - 16:00

Lecture Text classification of book reviews

This presentation gives an introduction to text mining with Python, and will specifically focus on text classification in the DIOPTRA-L corpus of Goodreads book reviews: can we predict the age category for which a book was written, based on its review? Can we predict the reviewed book’s genre? How well do state-of-the-art sentiment analysis models

20 May
04:00 - 17:00

Opening of the Living Lab Digital Humanities

On May 20 at 4 pm we will open the Digital Humanities Living Lab in the Inner City University Library. We hereby cordially invite you to attend this opening online.

17 September
15:00 - 16:00

CDH Webinar: On data and care in migration contexts

On 17 September, the Centre for Digital Humanities will host the webinar: ‘On data and care in migration contexts’. In the context of the emerging interdisciplinary field of digital migration studies, this webinar will discuss how researchers can care for their data. The webinar features as a pre-launch of the volume Research methodologies and ethical challenges

14 June
00:00 - 23:59

Conference: Artificial Intelligence in Education 2021

Over the past decades, racial and other bias-driven inequities have persisted or increased, diversity remains low in many educational and vocational contexts, and educational gaps have increased. Despite efforts to address these issues, biases based on factors such as race and gender persist. These issues have come to the forefront with recent crises around the