1. Data Lab & Digital Humanities
Patrick Florance, Associate Director of Geospatial Technology Services 
Annie Swafford, Digital Humanities Specialist Research Technology
Tufts Technology Services

2. Data Lab Overview
The Data Lab is a teaching and research computing lab designed to foster collaboration and innovation around data analysis, visualization, & design across all campuses and departments.
Services & Support for:
GIS & Remote Sensing
Field Data Collection
Statistical Analysis
Text Analysis
Data Visualization
Cartography & Design
Data Acquisition & Management
Digital Humanities

3. What is Digital Humanities?
Using technology to analyze the human record, especially text, images, and sound
Mapping characters’ travels in a text
Graphing thematic changes across millions of texts
Preserving or sharing endangered texts
Identifying author attribution
Building 3D models of ancient cities/buildings
AND MORE

4. DH Partners and Progress
Classics: Perseus, Perseids, MA in Digital Tools for Premodern Studies
Data Lab: GIS, text mining
DDS: Multimedia Production
Tisch Library: Digital exhibits (Omeka, Spotlight), data modeling, repository, copyright
DCA: Digital Exhibits, repository, digitization
South Asia Digital Humanities Lab
CSRD, Africana Studies, Africana Center, and more: African American Freedom Trail Project
AND MANY OTHERS

5. How can we help? We provide: Consultations in
Designing a project based on your research question
Finding tools & data sources
Scoping the project/project management
Building the project
Digital pedagogy
Instruction (Workshops and classroom visits)
Collaboration
Bringing together the people you need
Data/metadata librarians, developers, GIS experts, etc.

6. Data Lab Workshops

7. Sponsored by
Prof. Greg Crane
Classics Dept.

8. DH Questions? I’m here to help! Email me at joanna.swafford@tufts.edu
Join our elist:
Stay tuned for DH website