Guess what day it is… ? – Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon DHH

We are now more than half-way into the hackathon. The hump is embodied by an interim presentation on the group’s progress in the afternoon.

In the morning, we extracted subsets of the data containing keywords, and utilised collaborative data verification technology (i.e. the group eyeballing through a Google Sheet) to check results

The keyword of the day is “keywords”. We extracted keywords for each title, then use them to discover patterns for the topic clustering.

The level of intrigue featured in the 18th century history circles #spoilers

In the later half of the day, we also got the top named entities mentioned in publications, decade-by-decade. The idea is that books of a similar nature would refer to a similar set of entities. Some colourful and fabulous graphs for the topics are coming up in the very near future.

Presenting some initial results, with impressive visual effects

At 4pm, it’s presentation time. Each group gave an update on the progress and presented intermediary results. Saving the best for the last, our very animated presentation drew the day towards a highlighted close.

Well, the working day, that is. At 6pm, we all headed to the marvelous main building of the university — as an annual tradition for each iteration of the hackathon — to wine and dine at the archive where collections of theses on Fennistics were enshrined.

Social evening at the Morphological Archive in the main building of the university at the Senate Square

Afterwards also as a tradition, the socialising continues on at the aptly named “Thirsty Scholar”, with a beer garden and a view of the Helsinki Dome.