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 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

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

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