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Close Encounters with Oral History: Uncovering Women’s History

by Data Analysis and Social Inquiry Lab
June 18, 2019June 18, 2019

In our third and final blog post, we present the historical interpretations of the Iowa Township Project, concluding ten years of diligent research and analysis.… Read More »

Adventures With Collaborative OCR Projects: The Scarlet and Black Plain Text Files

by Katherine Walden, Papa Kojo Ampim-Darko, Sarah J. Purcell
May 28, 2019May 28, 2019

The Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative (DLAC) along with the College Libraries, DASIL, and other partners are excited to launch a public archive of plain-text files… Read More »

Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and BREXIT

by JINLIN HE'18, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND STATISTICS, SARA MARKU'18, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS, AND AN HOANG'18 BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
May 22, 2018July 25, 2018

In this blog post, we are going to discuss about the process of engineering metrics to capture the two major concepts in our research question… Read More »

New DASIL Space in the Humanities and Social Studies Center (HSSC)

by XAVIER ESCANDELL; DIRECTOR OF DASIL (DATA ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL INQUIRY LAB)
March 2, 2018July 25, 2018

Growth in Data Analysis Space Leads to Growth of CapabilitiesData — from a single digit to terabytes of information — increasingly shapes decisions on public… Read More »

Data Across the Curriculum: The Explanatory Power of Data in Global Development & Geography

by BONNIE BROOKS, DASIL POST-BACCALAUREATE FELLOW, GRINNELL COLLEGE
March 10, 2016July 27, 2018

The field of geography is split into two camps: critical scholars, who are skeptical of data because they believe it silences certain voices within society… Read More »