Digital Methods Tool Medley
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This document provides an overview of various digital tools and methods for conducting social and cultural research online. It describes tools from the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) tool database that can be used to analyze links, compare lists, query websites, visualize data and map networks. Specific tools demonstrated include LinkRipper, Triangulate, GoogleScraper, IssueCrawler, Harvester, Censorship Explorer, Dorling map generator, Instagram scraper, DownthemAll!, DMI-TCAT, YouTube Data Tools, Netvizz, Tracker Tracker, OpenRefine, Palladio, Table2Net and RAW. The document emphasizes that these tools can be used together in "chains" to systematically answer research questions.
![Search as research
[…] the point of departure of search as research, or
societal search, may be summarized as follows: we
look at Google results and see society, instead of
Google. That is to say, including its ‘artifacts,’
engine results put much on display – from source
competition and standing to longevity and
commitment (Rogers 2013: 110).](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tooldmedleydh2015-151022161131-lva1-app6891/85/Digital-Methods-Tool-Medley-18-320.jpg)
Digital Methods Tool Medley
- 1. Digital Methods Tool Medley Crash Course Digital Humanities, Amsterdam, 22 October 2015. Dr. Anne Helmond @silvertje Tomás Saraceno, galaxies forming along filaments, Venice Biennial 2009
- 2. Thanks to • Erik Borra • Emile den Tex • Bernhard Rieder
- 3. Medley? • a diverse assortment or mixture • a musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces
- 4. Digital Methods Initiative (DMI): new methods and tools for social and cultural research
- 7. Cablegate • Research question • Operationalization • Method: often a chain of tools
- 8. The Response of the Source Question: Do the sources acknowledge cablegate? 1. Get all links for US embassy websites: http://www.usembassy.gov/ 2. Compile list of embassies mentioned in cables: http://wikileaks.ch/cablegate.html 3. Compare lists 4. Query mentioned embassies for: 1. Wikileaks 2. "Julian Assange” 3. Assange 4. Cablegate 5. Get number of cables per embassy 6. Visualize output
- 11. Result: links!
- 12. Repeat & paste in spreadsheet
- 14. Aim: Acknowledgement of leak?
- 16. Result: tagclouds (starting point for further analysis)
- 17. The nationality of rights types https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues
- 18. Search as research […] the point of departure of search as research, or societal search, may be summarized as follows: we look at Google results and see society, instead of Google. That is to say, including its ‘artifacts,’ engine results put much on display – from source competition and standing to longevity and commitment (Rogers 2013: 110).
- 19. Research question Can the search engine Google be repurposed to show which rights are specific per country?
- 20. Query Google countries .nl (Dutch), .be (Dutch, French), .com/.co.uk/.com.au/(English), .it (Italian), .ro (Romanian), .md (Moldavian), .ca (French, English), .fr (French), .de/.at/.lu (German), .fi (Finnish), .se (Swedish), .ee (Estonian), .ru (Russian)
- 21. “Query design” “Query design” is the practice of formulating a query so the results can be interpreted as indications and findings (however clue-like), as opposed to mere information retrieved or optimization and manipulation exposed (however fascinating) (Rogers 2013, 111).
- 22. “rights” in national terminology • Google.se with query “rattigheter” (13.07.09) • Google.fi with query “oikeudet” (13.07.09) • Google.ee with query “oigused” (15.07.09) • Google.lv with query “tiesibas” (16.07.09) • Google.co.uk with query “rights” (13.07.09) • Google.nl with query “rechten” (13.07.09) • Google.fr with query “droits” (14.07.09) • Google.pt with query “direitos” (14.07.09) • Google.es with query “derechos” (13.07.09)
- 23. The nationalities of rights types https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues
- 24. The nationalities of rights types https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues
- 25. The nationalities of rights types https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues
- 26. Mapping issue networks https://www.issuecrawler.net/ Starting points: blogroll from RealClimate.org Tool 1: Linkripper (get all links) Tool 2: IssueCrawler (map issue networks)
- 27. Mapping issue networks Climate change blogs network
- 28. Mapping the Dutch blogosphere https://www.issuecrawler.net/
- 30. Result: network graph IssueCrawler -> Gephi
- 31. The historical Dutch blogosphere
- 33. Aim: Get links
- 35. Dutch blogosphere: active blogs Tool: Censorship Explorer https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/proxies/
- 36. Dutch blogosphere (in)active blogs
- 40. Tool: Dorling map generator https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/dorling/
- 42. Result: images + (meta)data
- 45. Tool: DMI Twitter Capturing and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT) https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/dmi-tcat https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/dmi-tcat/wiki
- 46. Tool: DMI-TCAT
- 48. Tool: YouTube Data Tools https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/
- 49. Tool: YouTube Data Tools
- 50. Tool: YouTube Data Tools
- 53. BONUS TOOLS!
- 56. Palladio Palladio is a web-based platform for the visualization of complex, multi-dimensional data. http://palladio.designhumanities.org/
- 57. Tools from our colleagues in Paris http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/
- 58. Gephi: The Open Graph Viz Platform https://gephi.github.io/
- 59. Tool: Table 2 Net http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/table2net/
- 60. Tools from our colleagues in Milan http://raw.densitydesign.org/
- 62. Videos and tutorials https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEr-xMU78XORzBKII6NGGAQ/videos
- 63. kthnxbai! www.digitalmethods.net Dr. Anne Helmond @silvertje Tomás Saraceno, galaxies forming along filaments, Venice Biennial 2009