A Notebook on Digital Humanities

The following entries by Kenton Rambsy concentrate on geo-tagging, text-mining, and other topics related to digital humanities and technology. The asterisks (*) connote entries co-written with Howard Rambsy II.
 
Data storytelling 

• Data storytelling and visualization*

DH/technology workshops and projects
• Reflections on Seshat: A DH Initiative at Howard University    
• "Seshat: A Digital Humanities Initiative" at Howard University*
• Reflections on the “Space & Place in Africana/Black Studies” Institute  
• #NEHBlackSpace – Space & Place in Africana/Black Studies  
• On the origins of the HBW Blog
• Toward a History of the Black Book Interactive Project  
• Black Women scholars, Digital Humanities, and the College Language Association Convention, 2018*

Geo-tagging, geo-coding 
• Geo-coding black short stories & Jay Z -- Spring 2016 courses at UTA 
• Edward P. Jones and Literary Geo-Tagging   
• Geo-Coding Black Short Stories

General
• African American Literature and Digital Humanities
• African American literary studies and three research methods using digital tools 
• Jay Z, African American literary studies & digital humanities    

Metadata 
• Jay Z, Metadata, and African American literary studies   

NYTimes Chronicle 
• The Re-emergence of Douglass during the 1960s*

Projects
• The African American Language and Culture Lab*

Rap Genius
• Jay-Z & Zora Neale Hurston on swag: Rap Genius notes
• Follow-up on the 7 Ways Rap Genius encourages participants
• 7 Ways that RapGenius Assists Digital African American Literary Scholarship
• Rap Genius and access to black poetry 

Resources
• A Checklist of Digital Humanities projects*

Text-mining
• Pinpointing recurring themes in coverage of Amiri Baraka's passing
• Text-Mining, Geography, and Canonical African American Short Stories
• Slave narratives and word count* 
• Chronological List of 33 Slave Narratives*
• The word counts of 33 Slave narratives*
• How short and long are African American short stories?
• Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Text-Mining Experiments
• Zora Neale Hurston & Richard Wright Similarities (In Graphs)
• Zora Neale Hurston & Richard Wright Differences (In Graphs) 
• Voyant Tools Ratios and Language Density
• Stop Words and AAVE
• More on Frederick Douglass's use of "Man" in the Narrative*
• “Man,” “Covey,” and top 10 words in Douglass Narratives*
• "Like" on Reasonable Doubt*
• Jay Z, Reasonable Doubt, and Similes*
• Quantifying Frederick Douglass’s Notorious Mr. Covey*
• Word count and Frederick Douglass's Narrative* 
• African American Literature and Digital Humanities
• Text-Mining, Geography, and Canonical African American Short Stories
• Pinpointing recurring themes in coverage of Amiri Baraka's passing
• Word counts of select short stories by black writers

Tools
• Some Free Digital Software Programs and tools
• Notebook on Voyant Tools 
• Voyant Tools Brief Overview
• Voyant Tools General Features
• Voyant Tools: Data Visualizations

Related:
• Assorted Notebooks
• A notebook on short stories by black writers