Digital Area Studies

A seminar series at IKOS, University of Oslo

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We meet every Thursday from 12.00 to 13.00 in PAM389.

7 September: NOTE: 14.15 in PAM489 this date What is an operating system and how use the command line (cmd.exe)?
14 September: NOTE: We meet in PAM425 IKOS on the web and optimizing your web browser
21 September: Improving file management and digital hygiene
28 September: What is Markdown and plaintext editors?

05 October: Artificial Intelligence at IKOS (with Dirk and Andrea, links to resources will appear here later)
19 October: From Markdown to Quarto
26 October: An introduction to R and Rstudio Note: We meet in PAM489
2 November: An introduction to text preprocessing in R
9 November: Importing data and introduction to tidyverse and ggplot
16 November: Ggplot continued
23 November: R programming - topic TBA
30 November: R programming - topic TBA

17 January: An introduction to Markdown with Pandoc
1 February: Using Markdown with Zotero and Better BibTex
15 February: ggplot2: Cancelled
1 March: ggplot2: Creating timelines and Gantt charts in R
15 March: ggplot2: Text analysis and visualization
29 March: ggplot2: Text analysis and visualization
12 April: ggplot2: Creating maps and visualizing networks
26 April: ggplot2: Presentation by Sofie Gilbert, University of Oslo Library
10 May: Presentations by Neil Ketchley, St Antony’s College (Oxford University), and Cristopher Barrie, School of Social and Political Science (University of Edinburgh)

5 September: File management and text manipulation in R
19 September: OCR with Tesseract and Google Document AI
3 October: Google Document AI and the daiR package: Optical Character Recognition coding
17 October: Functions and iterations in R
31 October: Tidying and anlayzing texts in R
14 November: Text mining; participant presentations
28 November: More text mining; participant presentations
12 December: Working with plaintext in Middle East Studies