We cannot believe these 5 days are over The ‘Text as data’ #DHSpringSchool has reached its end, but the spring continues to blossom — and so do #DigitalHumanities

“..and my favourite fanfiction community — the one around German pseudo documentary criminal series” — @a_glawion presents network analysis of fanfiction communities based on mutual reviews at fanfiction[dot]de, which is also the source for practical data at the #DHSpringSchool networks workshop ‍

Will chalkboards survive in the digital world? We were surprised to see how useful this old-fashioned medium proved to be during our #DHSpringSchool — workshop leaders were so eager to use it for quick explanations Here Artjoms Şeļa is asking the participants to rate their lunch at @unipotsdam’s Mensa and immediately plots the distribution with chalk (to end up with a nice Gaussian)
#AnalogHumanities #DigitalHumanities

Aligning a historical 19 century map with a modern GIS to create a historically enriched map of the geotagged locations in Kidnapped by R.L. Stevenson
A #DHSpringSchool workshop by @dinara and Leif Isaksen #Geohumanities #DigitalHumanities #Geocoding

Leif Isaksen is using an old overhead projector to explain the concept of map layers in #GIS You can always count on Germany for providing antique machinery in perfect working conditions for demonstration
#DHSpringSchool #DigitalHumanities

You can tell apart iambic and trochaic meters just by measuring the frequency of ONE word (a single-character one!). At least in Czech, where it's not easy to do iambic poetry without adding monosyllabic words at the start of the line… @artjomshl.bsky.social explains the relation between the frequencies and meters in poetry (as part of the stylometry workshop at #DHSpringSchool)

Stylometry… That’s exactly what it looks like:
you i the a to and that in of it me is this what no on your yeah don't my do…

and so on! Especially if you’re working with movie dialogues
#DHSpringSchool #stylometry

Jan Rybicki: You can count many things in films—like dead bodies That alone can be a good proxy for genre.
If there’s one, it’s a love story that ends badly
If there are two, it’s a love story that ends even worse
Three to six? A crime story
A hundred? That’s Rambo
#DHSpringSchool #Stylometry #DigitalHumanities

Students turning texts into data to ask the data questions meaningful for the humanities scholars... Operationalization in #DigitalHumanities workshop at the 'Text as Data' #DHSpringSchool in Potsdam, organised jointly with @a_glawion and @dhss_fau

“Much of what I'll show you will be the colourful pictures of my own failures” — Jan Rybicki (Uniwersytet Jagielloński), in his usual manner, delivers a witty & extremely educational lecture on #Stylometry and #DistantReading in Film after an obligatory bit of ironic self-humiliation #DHSpringSchool

The #DHSpringSchool in Potsdam kicked off with an inspiring lecture by Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg on corpus linguistics and climate stories — exploring water-related collocations in texts and the narratives shaping our society #DigitalHumanities #CorpusLinguistics

When was the last time you saw someone teach #DigitalHumanities with a chalkboard? @cnDuKeli of @tcdh explains the machinery behind #TopicModeling during the 2nd day of the #DHSpringSchool

Sneak peek alert!

Our „Text as Data“ #DHSpringSchool merch just landed in Potsdam – fresh stickers & mugs ready to go!
Only a few more days until we kick off on Monday – we can't wait to welcome all the participants and teachers
#DigitalHumanities #DH2025

“Text as Data”

From March 31 to April 5, 2025, a week-long
DH Spring School
in Potsdam, Germany will focus on text-based digital humanities for students and early-career scholars. Learn computational methods like topic modeling, stylometry, and network analysis. Apply by Nov 30, 2024. Participation is free!

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/activities/dh-potsdam-spring-school-2025-texts-as-data