Articles By: Humtech RITCs

Getting Started with WordPress

Published: February 25, 2025

First things first: What is WordPress? WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that allows you to build a free website. WordPress makes it easy to customize your site’s layout,…

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A Brief Introduction to Seaborn

Published: February 10, 2025
A scatterplot matrix with density plots, displaying visualizations of the Iris dataset, created using the Seaborn library. The word ‘seaborn’ is prominently overlaid in large black text across the center of the image

There are a few Python libraries that enable researchers to create exceptional visualizations. Among these, I’d like to introduce Seaborn—a versatile and user-friendly library specifically designed for crafting informative and…

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Improving Lecture Videos

Published: February 19, 2021
image of zoom meeting

With a few quarters of remote instruction in the books and the shock of transitioning to Zoom and CCLE (hopefully) subsiding, now is a great time to look back and…

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Textual analysis and word clouds

Published: December 12, 2018
A small word cloud of terms associated with word clouds

If you have done work in the Humanities, you have likely come across the concept of “close reading” — the careful, detailed examination and interpretation of a short passage of…

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3D Printing the Thoreau Bust

Published: November 7, 2016
Bust of Thoreau

Last time we looked at how photogrammetry was used to reconstruct the 1898 bust sculpture of Henry David Thoreau. Now we will see how 3D printing can create a copy…

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