https://dhmuse.netlify.app/ Recent content in DHMuse on HIST4916a Hugo -- gohugo.io en shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) Original content by Shawn Graham licensed under a <a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/'>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a><br><a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/'><img alt='Creative Commons License logo' style='border-width:0' src='https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc/4.0/88x31.png' /></a>. <br>Site logo a combination of 'museum' by iconsphere and 'computer' by Chunk Icons, The Noun Project. Sun, 26 Jan 2020 04:15:05 +0900 https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/eight/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/eight/instructions/ We conclude our discussion and this phase of the course. We transform that conventional model for a seminar from live face to face to a distributed, asynchronous model through collaborative reading &amp; generous thinking Goals for this week Engage meaningfully with the discussion as prepared for you by your peers Read Finish with William, Ryan, Miria, and Paula&rsquo;s selections on the cyoa page. Do Discussion Leaders: Discussion leaders will remain alert and will respond to posts and queries on their respective articles. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/seven/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/seven/instructions/ We continue our discussion. We transform that conventional model for a seminar from live face to face to a distributed, asynchronous model through collaborative reading &amp; generous thinking Goals for this week Engage meaningfully with the discussion as prepared for you by your peers Read Continue with Patrick, Chantal, Kate, and Josh&rsquo;s selections on the cyoa page. Do Discussion Leaders: Discussion leaders will remain alert and will respond to posts and queries on their respective articles. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/six/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/six/instructions/ We continue our discussion. We transform that conventional model for a seminar from live face to face to a distributed, asynchronous model through collaborative reading &amp; generous thinking Goals for this week Engage meaningfully with the discussion as prepared for you by your peers Read Continue with Niall, Sara, and Sian&rsquo;s selections on the cyoa page. Do Discussion Leaders: Discussion leaders will remain alert and will respond to posts and queries on their respective articles. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/five/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/five/instructions/ A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization.[citation needed] It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to participate. This is often accomplished through an ongoing Socratic dialogue with a seminar leader or instructor, or through a more formal presentation of research. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/nine/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/nine/instructions/ in which we begin to put into practice what we have heard and read and discussed Let&rsquo;s make some magic! Goals for this week Discover the landscape of GLAM data in Ottawa Build your first notebook Listen Given the data we&rsquo;re working with this week, make sure to listen to this interview with Kristy von Moos of Ingenium.ca! Do Launch this notebook and use it to follow along the Programming Historian Tutorial on visualizing data located here using the data provided. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/two/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/two/instructions/ I wanted this course to be about exploration and figuring out what this field, CHI, meant for this sector, GLAM. As we built this course in the fall, I realized I was making a huge mistake. It was too controlled. Too rigid. Too much about me. When we go to a museum, library, gallery, or archive&hellip; it&rsquo;s all about you, and your exploration. That&rsquo;s how meaning emerges, right? So we tried to come up with a way for you to set the agenda and still meet the learning goals. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/ten/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/ten/instructions/ Goals for this week Cleaning data to make it useable Pushing data to the web Listen This week we hear from Fiona Smith Hale, the Chief Knowledge Officer at Ingenium. Also, I reflect on the way this course was built, my hopes for it, and suggest that we dial things back a bit in the light of, well, the world not having gone as planned. That is to say, I had imagined things (gestures wildly) having improved a lot by this point, when the course was built. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/one/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/one/instructions/ in which we lay the groundwork for what this course will explore, its larger contexts, and what the major research questions are. Goals for this week Get up and running with Hypothesis, Discord, and Github Understand what this course is about Start thinking about your goals for this course This week is about reading the syllabus and understanding what is expected of you in this course. Get Hypothesis, Discord, and Github set up; introduce yourself to the class in the social channel in Discord. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/three/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/three/instructions/ In weeks 5 - 8, we are going to use Hypothesis as a platform to collaboratively explore the materials that you selected last week for your adventure. In order to do that, you need to prepare your materials. I am giving you two weeks to prepare for this. Consider the amount of work as being similar to what you would do for a very good seminar presentation. Goals for this week Read and think about your selected materials carefully Prep them for the rest of us Improve your digital literacy Listen Episode 3 Script/Transcript https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/four/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/four/instructions/ In weeks 5 - 8, we are going to use Hypothesis as a platform to collaboratively explore the materials that you selected in week 3 for your adventure. In order to do that, you need to prepare your materials. I am giving you two weeks to prepare for this. Consider the amount of work as being similar to what you would do for a very good seminar presentation. Goals for this week Read and think about your selected materials carefully Prep them for the rest of us Continue to improve your digital literacy Listen Episode 4 Script/Transcript https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/eleven/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/eleven/instructions/ Goals for this week Some more data visualization Other forms of &lsquo;experiencing&rsquo; data Listen In this episode, we hear from Danuta Sierhuis, museum technologist, arts administrator and fibre artist, and currently the Digital Development Coordinator at Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen&rsquo;s University. Danuta has an MA in Art History with Digital Humanities. Do If you&rsquo;re feeling overwhelmed, you can take a break this week. Just continue to play with the notebooks from week nine. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/twelve/instructions/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:10:37 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/week/twelve/instructions/ Goals for this week Finish crafting your notebook; I will collate these into a OttawaGLAM Workbench. Write up documentation for your notebook; the &lsquo;notebook reflection&rsquo; aka the &lsquo;case study&rsquo;. Remember to consult the Guidance on Building Your Own Notebook and the Guidance for your Notebook Documentation, and the Sequence of Technical Work document. TALK about what you&rsquo;re doing in Discord; ask for help from others or from me. I am happy for you to collaborate on both these tasks; just talk to me so that we can be clear about expectations. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/transcripts/episode1/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:10:51 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/transcripts/episode1/ Transcript of this week&rsquo;s podcast episode. Part One When I was a kid, I lived in the hinterland of Ottawa. One year, when I was in elementary school, I got selected to go to Ottawa to hear Marc Garneau speak at the Science and Technology Museum - he had just returned from his first mission on the space shuttle. It was very exciting. After the talk, I got separated from the rest of the group. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/transcripts/episode2/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:10:51 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/transcripts/episode2/ Transcript of this week&rsquo;s podcast episode. Part One So this week is an important week in the class. This is the week where you get to choose your own DHMuse adventure. And by choose your own adventure. I mean- you know the first time I did this class I had a huge list of readings that I wanted everybody to get through. It was in fact quite overwhelming. Both for the students and for myself. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/transcripts/episode3/ Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:10:51 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/transcripts/episode3/ Transcript of this week&rsquo;s podcast episode. Part One Hey everybody, welcome to week three of the course. In this week, we have two major tasks ahead of us. This is the first of two weeks where you can prep your materials for our asynchronous seminar discussions coming up. It&rsquo;s also the first week where you have an opportunity to start polishing or developing your digital skills in particular. We&rsquo;re going to use what are called Jupiter notebooks, these are well, they&rsquo;re interesting. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/1-coursedescription/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:39:09 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/1-coursedescription/ A clever bit of visual juxtaposition. Yes&hellip;? Anyone&hellip;? (Photos by Scott Web https://unsplash.com/photos/ab80p262fFM and Ilya Pavlov https://unsplash.com/photos/OqtafYT5kTw ) HIST4916a Museums and Digital History How do museums and other organizations in the ‘GLAM’ sector (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) keep track of their collections? To what purpose? What might happen if we release these collections into the wild (via the internet)? If we mash these collections together what might we see, and why might it matter? https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/2-learning-outcomes/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:38:51 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/2-learning-outcomes/ Questions How do institutions in the GLAM sector use digital media to support their missions? Do digital techs push us towards particular voices in GLAM materials? Can/do digital techs in the service of GLAM harm different communities? And if so, how? And what can we do about it? Where are the new frontiers in CHI and GLAM? This course is an opportunity to explore these questions; I do not know the answers! https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/3-glamworkbench/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:38:51 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/3-glamworkbench/ Tangible Output of this Class Each of you will produce a computational notebook - a kind of website that has code within it that can be run, together with text and images describing what&rsquo;s going on - that is focussed on the Ottawa GLAM scene. All of these notebooks will be gathered together by me into an &lsquo;Ottawa GLAM Workbench&rsquo; (taking our cue from the inspiring work of Tim Sherratt and his GLAM Workbench on Australian and New Zealand&rsquo;s cultural heritage). https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/4-schedule/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:38:48 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/4-schedule/ Check out the weekly instructions for detailed guidance for what you should be doing each week. I estimate that the technical aspects of this course (the computational notebooks) will take about 17 hours over the duration of the course; see the weekly breakdown at the Sequence of Technical Work page. TL;DR Remember to join our discord so we can actually have some social contact and remember that other breathing human beings are part of this course! https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/5-assessment/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:38:59 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/5-assessment/ There is no midterm. There is no final exam. You grade emerges from the following elements. Discussion Leaders. Each student will be responsible to &lsquo;page prep&rsquo; certain readings. Page prep involves: Creating the Reading Overview: a brief overview page note attached to the assigned reading using Hypothes.is page notes Creating the Reading Pre-seed: at least five rich/deep annotations on each of your chosen readings/materials In the relevant week, when the other students read the papers, the student responsible for &lsquo;page prep&rsquo; will engage and respond to the annotations/responses of their peers in such a fashion as to dig deeper into the topic at hand see the guidance note for more information Collaborative Readers. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/library/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/library/ Photo by Jez Timms, unsplash.com The possible readings are grouped under four broad headings. They represent merely a starting point, not a canon. This list is non-exhaustive, non-canonical, and is heavily tilted towards museums. Let&rsquo;s fix that balance. If a pdf is online, and you are able to open it in your browser, you should be able to use Hypothes.is on it. Sometimes you won&rsquo;t be able to. In those cases, get in touch with me right away so we can figure something out. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/tech-req-at-a-glance/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/tech-req-at-a-glance/ This page gathers in one place the sequence of technical work I want you to do or attempt. You&rsquo;ll see that some things are mission critical, while others are for you to push yourself. You are not expected to do all of this work in heroic isolation, or to suffer through these exercises not understanding why something doesn&rsquo;t work. Collaborate. Talk to each other. Ask for help. Share screenshots. Divy up the task. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/technotes-toc/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/technotes-toc/ A list of interesting / useful notebooks and other things Basic Skills We are going to use Jupyter Notebooks in this class. For a global overview of how Jupyter notebooks work and are used in humanities research, see Quinn Dombrowski&rsquo;s lesson in The Programming Historian. The links below go to either live notebooks that you can work through, or guide you through some of the same steps that Dombrowski discusses, but with more detail. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/dl-guidance/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/dl-guidance/ The role of the Discussion Leader is to set us up for a deeper engagement with the task. You are the trailblazer, the guide, the scout, the point of first-contact, with a new and puzzling text. If there are two discussion leaders for a week, divy up the work between you equitably. The seminar discussions all happen through the medium of Hypothes.is annotations: it is critical that you get these prepared in advance of your official &lsquo;week&rsquo; so that Collaborative Readers can respond. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/more-github/ Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/more-github/ Simple Versioning with Git &amp; Github Git is a program you can put on your computer to take periodic &lsquo;snapshots&rsquo; or commits of the contents of your folder. Each snapshot gets a descriptive message about why you&rsquo;ve taken that snapshot. Git can also let you create &lsquo;branches&rsquo; for your work from a given point. You might want to do an experiment; a branch is a copy of your folder that you can work on and, if the experiment doesn&rsquo;t work, you may discard that branch and everything goes back to normal. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/cr-guidance/ Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/cr-guidance/ If you&rsquo;re not a Discussion Leader in a given week, you&rsquo;re a Collaborative Reader, and your task is to enrichen our understanding of the material by engaging with the texts in a generous way. Following Kathleen Fitzpatrick, I understand &lsquo;generous thinking&rsquo; to work like this: Generous Thinking [begins] by proposing that rooting the humanities in generosity, and in particular in the practices of thinking with rather than reflexively against [emphasis added] both the people and the materials with which we work, might invite more productive relationships and conversations not just among scholars but between scholars and the surrounding community. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/nb-guidance/ Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/nb-guidance/ Goal The goal of your notebook is to produce a computational document that engages with GLAM data from Ottawa. It would be helpful - but not required - to coordinate with your peers so that we have a wide variety of final notebooks. But even if two people created notebooks working with the same data, you would in all likelihood go about it in different ways, and so a user/reader would still learn from your example. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/mybinder/ Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/mybinder/ What is a &ldquo;binder&rdquo;? A binder in the context of this class is a GitHub repository that contains a notebook you&rsquo;d like others to be able to interact with and run, plus the configuration files that Binder needs to create an environment for your code to run in. For this to work, your repository must be public. myBinder.org cannot collect files from your repositories on GitHub unless they are publicly accessible. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/notebooks/simple-scraper/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/notebooks/simple-scraper/ Right-click and save as the ipynb file. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/github-guidance/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/github-guidance/ If any of the instructions below are unclear, annotate this page with hypothesis while being logged into our course reading group. If you spot someone asking for help and you can offer advice, respond to the annotation. Read completely through before trying to set things up. Introduction Github is a code sharing website often used by digital historians. &lsquo;Git&rsquo; is a program that takes snapshots of the current state of a folder, and stores them in sequence, allowing you to revert your changes to an earlier state. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/cs-guidance/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/cs-guidance/ Goal The goal here is to create a kind of guide to a selected notebook that shows what the notebook can do. It walks the user through the notebook, how to use it, perhaps visualize results or ways to extend it, in order to suggest questions a user might want to pose, and why it might matter. That last point is the most &lsquo;case study&rsquo;-ish bit. By providing guidance on the &lsquo;so what&rsquo; question, you will engage with the literature or issues and provide context for non-dh-minded folk should take this work seriously. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/datasette-guidance/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/datasette-guidance/ Prerequisites You need to have the following installed on your machine: Python. I recommend using Anaconda to manage all of your python related work. Get Anaconda here and get the 3.7 version. In the instructions below, you will also be installing Homebrew if you are on a Mac. Both PC and Windows people will need to install the command line interface (CLI) for Heroku. I recommend Mac people install Homebrew so that they can download the CLI from their terminal (also, lots of useful software is distributed using Homebrew). https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/jupyter/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/jupyter/ Step 1 You need to make yourself familiar with the command line. There are many such tutorials out there; I encourage you to follow this one from Melanie Walsh&rsquo;s Intro to Cultural Analytics class Step 2 Anaconda is a package of different programming languages and utilities for &lsquo;scientific computing&rsquo;. Go to the installation page and find the version that is appropriate for your machine. Download and then run the installer. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/6-commonregs/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:39:06 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/6-commonregs/ The following are the University regulations common to all History courses, that I am obligated to share with you. COPIES OF WRITTEN WORK SUBMITTED Always retain for yourself a copy of all essays, term papers, written assignments or take-home tests submitted in your courses. PLAGIARISM The University Senate defines plagiarism as “presenting, whether intentionally or not, the ideas, expression of ideas or work of others as one’s own.” This can include: https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/7-contact/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:39:06 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/7-contact/ Dr. Graham can be found online at shawn dot graham at carleton dot ca or on Twitter at @electricarchae. He will be present in our class discord server every day. If we ever get out of quarantine, and you&rsquo;re in Ottawa, he often haunts the Library coffeeshop. Online Office Hours Dr. Graham will be present in our Discord server every Wednesday from 1 until 3, and quite possibly the evenings too. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/8-colophon/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:39:06 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/8-colophon/ As a general philosophy of learning, I do not aim for coverage. Rather, I am trying to help you learn the skills that you will need to uncover whatever aspect of method and thought that will help you with your research goals. A big part of that is trying to teach how to deal with what might feel like &lsquo;failure&rsquo;, on first blush. I want you to swing for the bleachers, and not to be afraid of whiffing on the ball. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/9-reuse/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:39:06 +0900 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/docs/9-reuse/ Original content by Shawn Graham, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Please feel free to reuse exercises in your own course materials, with a link back to the original page. Corrections, modifications, additions are welcome; please fork, and then modify accordingly. Once you&rsquo;re ready, make a pull request. The original repository is at https://github.com/shawngraham/hist4916. All contributions will be duly credited. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/command-line-mac/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/command-line-mac/ Written Walkthrough If you&rsquo;re brand new to this, I strongly recommend you start with watching the video first because it&rsquo;s much more detailed. Of course, if you&rsquo;re confident in your technical abilities or just looking for a refresher, then this written guide to the command line is for you! Step 1: Accessing the Command Line To navigate the command line in macOS, we use Terminal, which is a built-in application. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/command-line-win/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/command-line-win/ Written Walkthrough If you&rsquo;re brand new to this, I strongly recommend you start with watching the video first because it&rsquo;s much more detailed. Of course, if you&rsquo;re confident in your technical abilities or just looking for a refresher, then this written guide to the command line is for you! Step 1: Accessing the Command Line So first thing we&rsquo;re going to want to do is actually open the command line so you can see what it is. https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/intro-r-rstudio/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 shawn.graham@carleton.ca (Dr. Shawn Graham) https://dhmuse.netlify.app/building/intro-r-rstudio/ Working with R R is a programming language designed for statistical computing and graphics creation, so it is excellent when it comes to analyzing large sets of data and creating visualisations from it&ndash; which tends to be a big part of our work in digital humanities! The language was designed by and for statisticians and data analysts, thus many of those with little or no experience with programming find R a bit easier to understand and use than other programming languages.