Data

Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860

• MySQL relational database;
• Over 40 tables;
• Structure documented in an article;
• PHP 7.4 hardcoded website.

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Upcoming work

I will build a mediagraphy of George W. M. Reynolds's works and speeches with Stephen Basdeo.

I did a one-week course on Linked Open Data at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in 2017. Three years later, I wrote about its limitations with four other participants at the “Exploring the Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata Workshop”.

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In 2021, I found that Wikidata was the solution I was looking for to allow “boutique” projects to link up their data without having to rely on the URIs of inaccurate and uneditable authority files.

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I've analyzed polling data, election results, and organizational data first for political parties and eventually for the general public through the elections blog I co-founded, Primed for the Polls.

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I've also analyzed 11,000 poll responses, including 4 open-ended questions, as part of public consultations regarding a public transportation project in Québec City.

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As part of public consultations regarding a public transportation project in Québec City, I've analyzed:

• 143 memoranda;
• 4 open-ended questions with over 11,000 responses.

As part of an iterative approach in designing an analysis grid to assess the positions expressed in the memoranda, I encoded six memoranda using the RQDA package.

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See Appendix 4 for methodology.

I encoded three novels in TEI and used the <seg> tag to encode which paragraph in each of two English translations corresponded to which paragraph of the French source text.

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I've created Sankey diagrams, sociograms, maps, and timelines to understand situations past and present.

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I've been using Zotero for over 10 years.

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Consulting

Designing classification system for the material you use in your reports;

Training your team to use Zotero and your custom classification system.

Coaching

Leading virtual workshops to teach the basics of Zotero or its more advanced features.