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 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
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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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