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
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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
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week 6 project update

Development On the image processing side of things, Chris has identified the syntax for generating our key values. Now we are working toward stitching the pieces together in a way that makes sense for our output. The extreme minimum of computer vision is accessible via OpenCV and while the possibilities are tantalizing, we have continued to keep a direct focus on the key pieces we need to access for the mvp. TANDEM is still on track. We have also begun to reevaluate our ...
March 15, 2015 by Kelly Marie Blanchat in Uncategorized Comments are off
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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
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