TANDEM

TANDEM in toto

TANDEM: A Web-Based Text and Image Data Generator Kelly Blanchat, Jojo Karlin, Stephen Real, Christopher Vitale DH Praxis Spring 2015 ABSTRACT TANDEM is a Python-based Django web-application that generates text and image data from files submitted by the user. TANDEM is for scholars seeking quantitative insight into a corpus consisting of picture books, comics, advertisements, and other images with overlaid text. The TANDEM application compiles three existing open source technologies: Tesseract OCR, Open Source Computer Vision (OpenCV), and a natural language processing library called Natural Language Toolkit ...

May 25, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in Design Plan, development, Outreach Plan, Project Plan Comments are off

Week 13 Project Update

WEEK 13 TANDEM PROJECT UPDATE: We are happy to announce that the initial version of our near-polished UI is up and functioning on http://dhtandem.com/. This development means that you can now go to the site and walk through uploading files as well as review some early versions of our documentation. Immediate next steps for our team include updating the text on the documentation pages to the more robust things we have patiently waiting in the wings while we finalize the connection of the ...

May 3, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in development, Outreach Plan, Project Plan Comments are off

Week 10 Project Update

TANDEM Project Update 4.19.15 Leave a reply PROJECT: DEVELOPMENT: Steve continues to power away like some sort of half-man, half-robot, mostly magic developer. As of today, we have successfully incorporated a single-file upload functionality to our Django app. Our next action items include: Testing the new upload functionality on the server Implementing multi-file upload and testing on local hosts and our server Hooking up the necessary analytics engine to our Django configuration Adding validation and error checking UI/UX: With the technical side of the interactivity mapped, we are working on the mockups for the ...

April 28, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in Outreach Plan, Project Plan Comments are off

Week 9 Project Update 4.11.15

TANDEM Week 9 Presentation TANDEM: A Brief Agenda I. Review our project goals Discuss new interested users (advertising, biodiversity cataloging) Discuss output applications in “Mother Goose Counts” II. Describe our development drive Branches of Dev underway UI/UX dynamic pages Django framework TANDEM tool python script III. Explain our development steps Two parallel paths were followed building Python “backend” code to run the analytics on the users’ input files The paths were merged and tested on a laptop The Python environment was then built on the server A command line versionTANDEM will now run on the server using local ...

April 17, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in Design Plan, development, Outreach Plan, Project Plan Comments are off

Project Update Week 8

TANDEM 0.5 will be moving from it’s heavy development phase into a testing and forward-facing design phase this week. At the time of this posting, Steve and Chris are still working out the specifics of functioning unified code, but testing of the independent scripts has begun to a certain degree of success. Text and image values are easily generated via independent processes. This week we also discussed the idea of data persistence with some depth. Simply put, would someone be able to access the ...

April 1, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in Design Plan, development, Outreach Plan, Project Plan Comments are off

Week 7 Project Update

Things are barreling ahead on TANDEM development! With our corpus defined and development goals set, the team is taking a two-pronged approach to the reaching the final project. While Chris and Steve focus on continuing to develop and code the working project, Kelly and Jojo have turned their attention to the work to be done with the corpus. Equally as important as building TANDEM is the ability to show a proof-of-concept and illustrate the value of the output TANDEM generates. While the ...

March 23, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in development, Project Plan Comments are off

Week 5 Project Update

Excitement! Team TANDEM is working fast and furiously on all fronts. We've hit a few snags but all told, we feel like we've got a handhold on the mountains we're climbing. Here’s a brief overview of the ups and downs of the week: Our hope we might springboard off Lev’s tool proved somewhat castles in the air. Lev's feature extractor was coded in a day. When they went to try to run it again later they couldn't. Lev suggested we use OpenCV instead. OpenCV ...

March 8, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in Design Plan, Outreach Plan, Project Plan Comments are off

TANDEM project plan

Team Members and Roles Stephen Real - Developer Kelly Blanchat - Designer/UI/UX Jojo Karlin - Outreach Coordinator Christopher Vitale - Project Manager (more…)

February 19, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in Project Plan Comments are off

Team TANDEM