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Digital Methods Tool Medley
Digital Methods Summer School 2015, Amsterdam, 29 June - 10 July
Anne Helmond @silvertje
Tomás Saraceno, galaxies forming along filaments, Venice Biennial 2009
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Thanks to
• Erik Borra • Emile den Tex
• Bernhard Rieder
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Medley?
• a diverse assortment or mixture • a musical composition made up of
a series of songs or short pieces
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Digital Methods Initiative (DMI): new methods and tools for social and cultural research
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DMI tool database
tools.digitalmethods.net
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DMI tool database
tools.digitalmethods.net
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Cablegate
• Research question • Operationalization
• Method: often a chain of tools
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The Response of the Source
Question: Do the sources acknowledge cablegate? 1. Get all links for US embassy websites:
http://www.usembassy.gov/ 2. Compile list of embassies mentioned in cables:
http://wikileaks.ch/cablegate.html 3. Compare lists 4. Query mentioned embassies for:
1. Wikileaks 2. "Julian Assange” 3. Assange 4. Cablegate
5. Get number of cables per embassy 6. Visualize output
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Tool: Link ripper
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/linkRipper/
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Repeat & paste in spreadsheet
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Tool: Triangulate
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/triangulate/
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Aim: Acknowledgement of leak?
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Tool: Googlescraper
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/scrapeGoogle/
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Result: tagclouds (starting point for further analysis)
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The nationality of rights types
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues
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Search as research
[…] the point of departure of search as research, or societal search, may be summarized as follows: we look at Google results and see society, instead of Google. That is to say, including its ‘artifacts,’ engine results put much on display – from source competition and standing to longevity and commitment (Rogers 2013: 110).
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Research question
Can the search engine Google be repurposed to show which rights are specific per country?
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Query Google countries
.nl (Dutch), .be (Dutch, French), .com/.co.uk/.com.au/(English), .it (Italian), .ro (Romanian), .md (Moldavian), .ca (French, English), .fr (French), .de/.at/.lu (German), .fi (Finnish), .se (Swedish), .ee (Estonian), .ru (Russian)
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“Query design”
“Query design” is the practice of formulating a query so the results can be interpreted as indications and findings (however clue-like), as opposed to mere information retrieved or optimization and manipulation exposed (however fascinating) (Rogers 2013, 111).
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“rights” in national terminology
• Google.se with query “rattigheter” (13.07.09) • Google.fi with query “oikeudet” (13.07.09) • Google.ee with query “oigused” (15.07.09) • Google.lv with query “tiesibas” (16.07.09) • Google.co.uk with query “rights” (13.07.09) • Google.nl with query “rechten” (13.07.09) • Google.fr with query “droits” (14.07.09) • Google.pt with query “direitos” (14.07.09) • Google.es with query “derechos” (13.07.09)
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The nationalities of rights types
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues
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The nationalities of rights types
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues
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The nationalities of rights types
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/NationalityofIssues
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Mapping the Dutch blogosphere
https://www.issuecrawler.net/
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Tool: IssueCrawler
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Result: network graph
IssueCrawler -> Gephi
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The historical Dutch blogosphere
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Source: Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org
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Tool: Harvester
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/harvestUrls/
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Dutch blogosphere: active blogs Tool: Censorship Explorer
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/proxies/
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Dutch blogosphere (in)active blogs
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Tool: Censorship explorer
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Tool: Censorship explorer
https://mappingiranonline.digitalmethods.net/
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Tool: Dorling map generator
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/dorling/
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Tool: Instagram scraper
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/instagram/
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Result: images + (meta)data
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Tool: DownThemAll!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/
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Tool: DMI Twitter Capturing and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT)
https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/dmi-tcat
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Tool: YouTube Data Tools
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/
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Tool: Netvizz
https://apps.facebook.com/netvizz/
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Tool: Tracker Tracker
https://tools.digitalmethods.net/beta/trackerTracker/
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Open Refine
http://openrefine.org/
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Open Refine
http://openrefine.org/
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Palladio Palladio is a web-based platform for the visualization of complex, multi-dimensional data.
http://palladio.designhumanities.org/
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Tools from our colleagues in Paris
http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/
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Tool: Table 2 Net
http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/table2net/
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Tools from our colleagues in Milan
http://raw.densitydesign.org/
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Tool: RAW
http://raw.densitydesign.org/
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kthnxbai!
www.digitalmethods.net Anne Helmond @silvertje
Tomás Saraceno, galaxies forming along filaments, Venice Biennial 2009