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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LAUNCH DETAILS!

The Digital GC: 2014-2015 Year-End Showcase Please join us on May 19th 2015 for a special event at the Graduate Center showcasing the innovative and diverse digital projects initiated during the 2014-2015 academic year! Presentations will be given by: the Digital Praxis Seminar, the GC Digital Fellows, Provost’s Digital Innovation Grantees, the New Media Lab, the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, the Futures Initiative, and the GC Library. Event Details: The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 4:15 pm The Graduate Center 365 Fifth ...
May 6, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in Outreach Plan Comments are off
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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
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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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