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Who doesn’t love mystery books? The mystery books of murder specifically have always been a puzzle that satisfy the reader’s mind. That’s where Stevenson’s stories pop up. His novels are partly horror fiction as well as a mysterious puzzle to solve. He caught our attention since we had already read some of his works and we likedContinue reading “Blog 5: Reflecting on our final DH Project”

Before this whole Coronavirus extravaganza started, we were introduced to TimelineJS in class and each person had to separately test this tool and create a sample timeline on a topic of our choice. First, it was a bit challenging for us to understand what was the purpose of the excel sheet but once we pluggedContinue reading “Blog 4: Our experience with TimelineJS”

“When are we going to use this in the real world?” This is the question that most people ask themselves when learning something new in the academic world. Every once in a while, new tools are created, many of them to merge “technology” and “literature”. In our case, Google My Maps is a way toContinue reading “Blog 3: Mapping Robert Louis Stevenson’s life achievements and novels”

We’re all used to carefully reading novels and poems and reflecting on them ever since we started analyzing literature. However, we recently learned a new method of analyzing texts called Distant Reading. Distant Reading refers to a professional reading method that relies heavily on computer programs. It was created by Franco Moretti who wanted toContinue reading “Blog 2: Distant reading using CliC and Voyant tools of Robert Louis Stevenson works”

Every piece of information in the wold has been copied. Backed up. Except the human mind, the last analog device in a Digital World. — Robert Ford. I remember the deep churning sounds that my first computer used to make as I pressed the power button on the CPU. I remember a high-pitched whirring, followedContinue reading “Error 404- Memories not found.”