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 11/12 Project Update (Numbering has collapsed)

TANDEM Project Update 4.26.15 WEEK 12 TANDEM PROJECT UPDATE: This has been a week of accelerated achievement on all fronts for TANDEM. Thanks to Steve, we have a working MVP hosted on www.dhtandem.com/tandem. Further, we have also made huge strides on the front end with Kelly’s robust initial set of HTML/CSS pages for the site. While the two ends are not tied together just yet, they are within sight as of this weekend. Jojo continues to surprise the group with her intuitive mix ...
April 28, 2015 by Jojo Karlin in Uncategorized 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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