Are you interested in learning more about how to create data visualizations but not quite sure you’re ready to step into the world of Tableau, the software platform that is becoming an industry standard in the world of data analysis? Why not try Flourish? The browser-based application allows you to…

I want to write about a new tool I’ve found for data visualization. But the process of creating a data visualization doesn’t begin with using the tool I’ve decided on. It actually begins a few steps before that — with finding and then cleaning a dataset. So let’s talk about…

This is the second in a series on creating a Wordpress.com website. Previous posts include: 1: How to Create a Free Wordpress.com Account So now that you’ve created a free Wordpress.com account, you can start designing your site. …

Wordpress began as Wordpress.org, a content management system (CMS) in 2003. It was intended to be a completely free and open-source way to publish web blogs. At that point in time, broadband internet service, which had first become available in the mid-1990s, was being installed in an increasing number of…

Are you interested in learning a new skill? The Digital Scholarship Lab has migrated many of its most popular workshops into an online format to help continue to provide instruction during this COVID-19 situation. Now, you can work at your own pace through topics like Tableau, Python, OpenRefine, poster design…

WordPress makes adding media items to a blog post or site easy with their user-friendly interface. Media includes images, videos, documents, and audio files. TIP: Make sure you’ve downloaded the all images you want to use into a folder on your desktop. …

You’d have to have been hiding under a rock for the past twenty years to not know about Adobe and their suite of software. They’ve been the market standard for digital design, editing, and publication for years now, despite attempts by other open-source software to compete with their products. Adobe…

Everybody knows about Leap Year, right? That holiday we only celebrate once every four years. Now imagine a holiday that’s been twenty years in the making — it’s got to be pretty special when it finally comes around, right? That’s how a lot of us felt this past New Year’s…

Marquette University’s Department of Special Collections is the proud owner of several original J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts, including his two most famous works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Visitors and scholars from all over the world have come to look at the manuscripts and study them. But the…