Crash Course Digital Humanities, Amsterdam, 22 October 2015.

1. Digital Methods Tool Medley
Crash Course Digital Humanities, Amsterdam, 22 October 2015.
Dr. Anne Helmond @silvertje
Tomás Saraceno, galaxies forming along filaments, Venice Biennial 2009

2. Thanks to
• Erik Borra
• Emile den Tex
• Bernhard Rieder

3. Medley?
• a diverse assortment or mixture
• a musical composition made up of
a series of songs or short pieces

4. Digital Methods Initiative (DMI):
new methods and tools for social
and cultural research

5. DMI tool database
tools.digitalmethods.net

6. DMI tool database
tools.digitalmethods.net

7. Cablegate
• Research question
• Operationalization
• Method: often a chain of tools

8. The Response of the Source
Question: Do the sources acknowledge cablegate?
1. Get all links for US embassy websites:
http://www.usembassy.gov/
2. Compile list of embassies mentioned in cables:
http://wikileaks.ch/cablegate.html
3. Compare lists
4. Query mentioned embassies for:
1. Wikileaks
2. "Julian Assange”
3. Assange
4. Cablegate
5. Get number of cables per embassy
6. Visualize output

9. Aim: get links

10. Tool: Link ripper
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/linkRipper/

11. Result: links!

12. Repeat & paste in spreadsheet

13. Tool: Triangulate
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/triangulate/

14. Aim: Acknowledgement of leak?

15. Tool: GoogleScraper
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/scrapeGoogle/

16. Result: tagclouds (starting point
for further analysis)

17. The nationality of rights types
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues

18. Search as research
[…] the point of departure of search as research, or
societal search, may be summarized as follows: we
look at Google results and see society, instead of
Google. That is to say, including its ‘artifacts,’
engine results put much on display – from source
competition and standing to longevity and
commitment (Rogers 2013: 110).

19. Research question
Can the search engine Google be
repurposed to show which rights are
specific per country?

20. Query Google countries
.nl (Dutch), .be (Dutch, French),
.com/.co.uk/.com.au/(English), .it
(Italian), .ro (Romanian), .md
(Moldavian), .ca (French, English), .fr
(French), .de/.at/.lu (German), .fi
(Finnish), .se (Swedish), .ee
(Estonian), .ru (Russian)

21. “Query design”
“Query design” is the practice of
formulating a query so the results
can be interpreted as indications and
findings (however clue-like), as
opposed to mere information
retrieved or optimization and
manipulation exposed (however
fascinating) (Rogers 2013, 111).

22. “rights” in national terminology
• Google.se with query “rattigheter” (13.07.09)
• Google.fi with query “oikeudet” (13.07.09)
• Google.ee with query “oigused” (15.07.09)
• Google.lv with query “tiesibas” (16.07.09)
• Google.co.uk with query “rights” (13.07.09)
• Google.nl with query “rechten” (13.07.09)
• Google.fr with query “droits” (14.07.09)
• Google.pt with query “direitos” (14.07.09)
• Google.es with query “derechos” (13.07.09)

23. The nationalities of rights types
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues

24. The nationalities of rights types
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues

25. The nationalities of rights types
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues

26. Mapping issue networks
https://www.issuecrawler.net/
Starting points: blogroll from RealClimate.org
Tool 1: Linkripper (get all links)
Tool 2: IssueCrawler (map issue networks)

27. Mapping issue networks
Climate change blogs network

28. Mapping the Dutch blogosphere
https://www.issuecrawler.net/

29. Tool: IssueCrawler

30. Result: network graph
IssueCrawler -> Gephi

31. The historical Dutch blogosphere

32. Source: Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org

33. Aim: Get links

34. Tool: Harvester
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/harvestUrls/

35. Dutch blogosphere: active blogs
Tool: Censorship Explorer
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/proxies/

36. Dutch blogosphere (in)active blogs

37. Tool: Censorship explorer

39. Tool: Censorship explorer
https://mappingiranonline.digitalmethods.net/

40. Tool: Dorling map generator
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/dorling/

41. Tool: Instagram scraper
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/instagram/

42. Result: images + (meta)data

43. Tool: DownThemAll!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

44. Script: download.sh
https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/various/blob/master/download.sh

45. Tool: DMI Twitter Capturing and
Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)
https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/dmi-tcat
https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/dmi-tcat/wiki

46. Tool: DMI-TCAT

47. Tool: DMI-TCAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex97eoorUeo

48. Tool: YouTube Data Tools
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/

49. Tool: YouTube Data Tools

50. Tool: YouTube Data Tools

51. Tool: Netvizz
https://apps.facebook.com/netvizz/

52. Tool: Tracker Tracker
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/trackerTracker/

53. BONUS TOOLS!

54. Open Refine
http://openrefine.org/

55. Open Refine
http://openrefine.org/

56. Palladio
Palladio is a web-based platform for the visualization
of complex, multi-dimensional data.
http://palladio.designhumanities.org/

57. Tools from our colleagues in Paris
http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/

58. Gephi: The Open Graph Viz Platform
https://gephi.github.io/

59. Tool: Table 2 Net
http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/table2net/

60. Tools from our colleagues in Milan
http://raw.densitydesign.org/

61. Tool: RAW
http://raw.densitydesign.org/

62. Videos and tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEr-xMU78XORzBKII6NGGAQ/videos

63. kthnxbai!
www.digitalmethods.net
Dr. Anne Helmond @silvertje
Tomás Saraceno, galaxies forming along filaments, Venice Biennial 2009