Digital Humanities

A resource guide for learning about and starting projects in the Digital Humanities

Tools, Techniques, and Tutorials

Programming Historian

A wealth of tutorials for many types of digital humanities techniques.

Miriam Posner's Introduction to Network Analysis

Python vs. R: What's the Difference?

Alan Liu's DH Toychest

A wiki of tools for use by humanities scholars who may not have programming skills but are technically literate. The list of tools is in the sidebar on the right hand side of the page.

Voyant Tools

A suite of tools for text analysis of large corpora.

Voyant Tools Documentation

The Programming Historian

A library of tutorials for using digital projects.

The 36 Best Tools for Data Visualization
Field
An open-source coding environment for the creation of algorithm-based art object. Requires moderate to advanced technical skills. Used in the Spatializing Photographic Archives NEH Start-up grant.
TimelineJS
An tool to create interactive timelines. Would work well with student projects or as a piece for larger, more complex faculty research projects.
Resources for Teaching and Learning Text Encoding
The Women Writer's Project developed a series of workshops, which they've shared with the world, on learning to use TEI for scholarly analysis of text.
StoryMapJS
A tool to create interactive maps and incorporate images, sound, and video. Easy to learn and use.