As I mentioned in earlier posts, I love using Open Refine for my data cleaning. For my project Soviet Journals Reconnected, I wanted to add transliterated names to my database. Transliterating by hand is out of question. For a while, I used a somewhat inconvenient Python script I had come up with. But even for […]

After a year of intensive work on my digital humanities project, it’s time to branch out. This is what I really love about digital humanities: it allows me to present my scholarship with greater immediacy than a journal article can provide – although I currently have an essay about the project under review and writing […]

Setting up a functioning MySQL database on your computer can be a bit of a struggle, although it doesn’t have to be – as I learned the hard way. As a digital humanist, I wanted to do everything “properly:” according to the best practices of my institutional environment. At the same time, things got a […]