Resources for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences

Annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria offers courses on research computing topics in humanities and social sciences. Some of DHSI courses each year are taught by our analysts and staff.

  • “3D visualization for the humanities”: ZIP file with slides, scripts, and data files

Table of Contents:   “Exploration of tools and approaches for Humanists”“Tips & tools for mining Twitter data for research”“Text parsing & matching with High Performance Computing resources”“Getting started on the cloud”“Tools for Handling Big Data & Computing Demands in Humanities & Social Science Research”


“Learning Regular Expressions with Smart Tools”

Webinar (2023-May-09) by John Simpson

  • Google Doc (read-only) with links and workshop notes

“Exploration of tools and approaches for Humanists”

Webinar (2021-May-12) by Megan Meredith-Lobay


“Tips & tools for mining Twitter data for research” (part1)

Webinar (2019-Nov-27) by John Simpson


“Mining Twitter data for research” (part2)

Webinar (2020-May-27 ) by John Simpson


“Text parsing & matching with High Performance Computing resources”

Webinar (2019-Feb-06) by Ian Percel


“Getting started on the cloud”

Webinar (2018-Nov-28) by John Simpson


“Tools for Handling Big Data & Computing Demands in Humanities & Social Science Research”

Webinar (2017-Sep-21) by Megan Meredith-Lobay