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DHRIFT can be customized to your pedagogical needs.

DHRIFT curriculum have been developed, used, and tested in classrooms at over twenty colleges and universities. DHRIFT provides sites for your technical intensives and workshops that help you to teach technical topics effectively. DHRIFT is created by humanists, for humanists. We value inclusivity and openness in the design of our curriculum and platform.

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Workshops

Command Line

Command Line Workshop

The command line is a way to interact with our computer via text. It is a foundational skill for digital projects as it allows us to understand the architecture of computer systems. In this workshop, ...

Simulations With Python

Creating Simulations With Python

In this workshop, you will learn how to create very basic simulations in Python. The workshop will employ the logic of Python's 'object-oriented' methodology to create two small simulations: a dice r...

Data Literacies

Data Literacies

What is data? What counts as data? What are the ethical implications when working with data? How can we manage our data? These are questions we will explore throughout the workshop. Data is foundation...

Git and GitHub

Introduction to Git and GitHub

Git and GitHub are powerful tools for collaborative and individual projects. Git is a version control software that aids with tracking changes made to a set of files over time. GitHub is a web-based p...

HTML & CSS

Introduction to HTML and CSS

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is used to create and organize the content of a website. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used for website design and layout. Together, these languages form the foundat...

Javascript

Intro to Javascript

This is a hands-on introduction to JavaScript, the programming language of the web. This course is designed for graduate students and researchers interested in developing websites or creating interact...

Mapping

Mapping Workshop

In the past decade, interactive maps have become one of the most popular ways to visualize and explore spatial data. Responding to the demand, mapping companies such as ESRI have developed a suite of ...

Python

Python for Researchers

This is a hands-on introduction to Python, designed for graduate students and researchers interested in automating research tasks, analyzing data, and creating reproducible computational workflows. By...

Pandas

Data Manipulation in Pandas and Python

In this workshop, we are going to learn some basic commands in Pandas, an expansive Python library for working with tabular data like CSV files. You can think of Pandas as a more powerful version of E...

Python

Introduction to Python

Python is a general-purpose programming language suitable for a wide variety of tasks in the digital humanities. Learning Python fundamentals is a gateway to analyzing data, creating visualizations, c...

Text Analysis Workshop

Text Analysis Workshop

Analyzing textual data opens a new way to interrogate the world. Put simply, it is a way to "read" and interpret the incredible amount of text generated past and present. This workshop will introduce ...