Writing the next great American novel, or realistically, finding the “write”...
The Scholarly Commons is a great place to write the next great American novel; in fact, I’m surprised it has not happened yet (no pressure dear patrons — we understand that you have a lot on your...
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What To Do When OCR Software Doesn’t Seem To Be Working
Optical character recognition can enhance your research! While optical character recognition (OCR) is a powerful tool, it’s not a perfect one. Inputting a document into an OCR software doesn’t...
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This Semester at the Scholarly Commons
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and it’s a new semester at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And with that new semester come all of the happenings at the Scholarly Commons. We...
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Preparing Your Data for Topic Modeling
In keeping with my series of blog posts on my research project, this post is about how to prepare your data for input into a topic modeling package. I used Twitter data in my project, which is...
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Announcing Topic Modeling – Theory & Practice Workshops
We’re happy to announce that Scholarly Commons intern Matt Pitchford is teaching a series of two Savvy Researcher Workshops on Topic Modeling. You may be following Matt’s posts on Studying Rhetorical...
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This Semester at the Scholarly Commons
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and it’s a new semester at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And with that new semester come all of the happenings at the Scholarly Commons. We...
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Beginning again!
Hello students, faculty, and the amazing people of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! Your home for qualitative and quantitative research assistance, the Scholarly Commons, is re-opening...
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Creating Accessible Slides for Presentations and Online Posting
Making presentations accessible is important, whether in a classroom, in a meeting, or any situation you find yourself delivering information to an audience. Now, more learning than ever is taking...
View ArticleIntroductions: What is GIS, anyways?
This post is part of a series where we introduce you to the various topics that we cover in the Scholarly Commons. Maybe you’re new to the field or you’re just to the point where you’re just too afraid...
View ArticleWhat Are the Digital Humanities?
Introduction As new technology has revolutionized the ways all fields gather information, scholars have integrated the use of digital software to enhance traditional models of research. While digital...
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