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Posts from CESTA staff and the community.
After presenting at SURPS, Jeongeun Park took some time to reflect on the way that her experience at CESTA shaped her research and personal development. We can't wait to work with more RAs like Jeongeun! In her own words: The Chinese Railroad…
This week, we wanted to take a deeper dive on the CESTA Summer RAs and the diverse demographics. Of the 30 undergraduate and co-term RAs currently on board, there are 19 humanities majors, 6 studying the sciences, 6 in engineering, and one…
This week, we conducted an interview with one of our Research Assistants, Nikki Tran ‘18, to get an insider’s perspective on doing research at CESTA. She has been working with CESTA as a RA for two quarters. What project are you working on? I am…
CESTA’s Research Assistants are now in week 5 of the summer program, and we’ve been hard at work with translating, mapping, and coding, but we’re never too busy to recognize some of the amazing work being done in the digital humanities community!…
This week, I took a first leap with some more text visualization and dove deeper than last week’s word cloud. This was my first experience with text analysis, and it was interesting to say the least. With guidance from CESTA researcher and project…
Last week, the summer Research Assistants all wrote reflections on their first impressions of CESTA and the digital humanities. Take a peek at this word cloud that shows the most used words in our reflections - you can see what’s taking up most of…