Month: July 2017
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Week 7 Recap: On the Road Again!
What’s summer without road trips? On Monday, we took #dssrf17 on the road again, this time visiting our digital scholarship peers at Gettysburg College. We were inspired to start the DSSRF program after seeing librarians and students from Gettysburg and Lafayette present at last year’s Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference, so this was a perfect…
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Week 6 – Rennie Heza
As we wrap up week six of the DSSRF program, I finally feel I have made a unique contribution to the rapidly changing world of sports analytics. Though my model is far from Earth-shattering, I am confident such a model could be used as a jumping-off point to continue immersing oneself in sports analytics. Such…
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Week 6
As I get deeper into my research, I am coming across more and more issues related to my topic that I had never really thought about. It seems like the more we learn about an issue the more we are able to fully appreciate the complexities that surround it. My project focuses on China’s internet…
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Research Issues
During the summer of 2016, I started my first research project, and I was using digital humanities tools. There was so much I had learned from that experience from archiving data to using Omeka and Neatline. There was not a steep learning curve in terms of the platforms I was using. Instead, the most difficult…
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Week 5 – Rennie Heza
This week our facilitators asked us to write about some of the challenges we’ve faced through the first 5 weeks of the DSSRF program. I will focus specifically on the struggles encountered in the fifth week. That is not to say I didn’t have issues through the first four weeks, but this week has been…