CDH Workshop: Principles & practices of machine learning – A hands-on training for beginners with applications in the humanities

In this one day course Hugo Schnack, assistant professor Language acquisition, processing and disorders, will give an introduction to what machine learning is, when and how it can be used and what it can do.  Machine learning is a data analysis technique to discover (complex) patterns in datasets related to some property of interest. These techniques

CDH Webinar: Talking XTC – Distant and close reading of digitized newspaper and radio data archives

In this webinar on October 21, media researcher Berrie van der Molen will talk about the methodological approach – the ‘leveled approach’ – he used writing his dissertation ‘Talking XTC: Drug discourse in post-war Dutch newspaper and radio debates’.  Earlier this year, Berrie van der Molen defended his dissertation, which consists of four analyses of the

CDH Workshop: Getting started with network visualization – introductory Gephi course for humanities staff

In this workshop, Jeroen Bakker, junior researcher at Utrecht Data School, will introduce you to network analysis and visualization using Gephi. After this hands-on session, you will be able to conduct a network research on a large dataset. Networks are all around us. The relationship between friends on Facebook, money flows between businesses, or characters in a novel:

Mirko Schäfer appointed Visiting Professor to University of Helsinki

For the coming three years, CDH programme team member Mirko Schäfer has been appointed Visiting Professor at the Helsinki Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH). Developing the Utrecht Data School at Utrecht University, Mirko Schäfer has built a track-record of societally engaged research for inquiring datafication and algorithmization at government organisation in the Netherlands.

CLARIAH opens Fellowship Call 2022

CLARIAH opens the Fellowship Call 2022 in order to further improve the CLARIAH infrastructure and encourage its use. This infrastructure consists of a wide variety of tools, services and datasets. The CLARIAH Board distinguishes two kinds of fellowship: Research Fellowships and Teaching Fellowships. Every person who is employed by an organization that is eligible for

Gerda Henkel Fellowship in Digital History

With the generous support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German Historical Institute (GHI) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at the George Mason University (RRCHNM) invite applications from postdoctoral scholars and advanced doctoral students based in Europe for a 12-month fellowship in digital history. This fellowship aims to connect scholars