The relationship between close reading, mid-range reading (Alison Booth, “Mid-Range Reading: Not a Manifesto,” 2017), and distant reading (Franco Moretti, “Distant Reading,” 2013) has expanded the scholarly potential of both literary studies and the social sciences. The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with the basic workflow, terms and output a student or […]
This workshop will examine a variety of strategies, tools, and design tips to create engaging and compelling presentations designed to better connect you with your audience. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop.
This workshop will explore DEVONthink, a powerful document and information management tool that allows you to collect, organize, edit, and annotate documents of any kind. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop.
This workshop will explore several tools in Microsoft Excel useful in conducting research. The workshop will cover basic and advanced techniques such as Importing and formatting text, tables, joining data sets, PivotTables, conditional formatting, and connecting to external data sources. This Workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation […]
This workshop will explore Scrivener, a writing application designed for long writing projects. The workshop will cover core concepts, importing documents and research into Scrivener, view modes, using metadata, tagging, keywords, and much more. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop.
This workshop will introduce the alphabet soup of technologies powering the modern web; TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, REST APIs, OAUTH, SSL, AWS, among others. Attendees will build up enough background knowledge to begin scraping data from the web. Python will be demonstrated, but the concepts are reasonably generic. This Workshop will be offered via Zoom. […]
This workshop will examine a variety of strategies, tools, and design tips to create engaging and compelling presentations designed to better connect you with your audience. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop.
This workshop will explore working with digital archives using DEVONthink, a powerful document and information management tool that allows you to collect, organize, edit, and annotate documents of any kind. Tinderbox, a sophisticated notetaking application designed to capture and analyze complex relationships and ideas, and Zotero, an open-source reference manager, used to manage bibliographic data […]
This workshop will explore Tinderbox, a sophisticated notetaking application designed to capture and analyze complex relationships and ideas. The workshop will cover core and advanced concepts. Please visit eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ for more information on this tool. This Workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the […]
The relationship between close reading, mid-range reading (Alison Booth, “Mid-Range Reading: Not a Manifesto,” 2017), and distant reading (Franco Moretti, “Distant Reading,” 2013) has expanded the scholarly potential of both literary studies and the social sciences. The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with the basic workflow, terms and output a student or […]