We believe that every student, across all disciplines, needs basic computational skills to be successful in today’s world. The DITI team of graduate students, guided by faculty and staff leads, works with faculty across CSSH to incorporate digital proficiencies into existing syllabi. Rather than adding additional skills or assignments to courses, we work with faculty to integrate digital skills that enhance existing course learning goals. The aim is not to turn all students into computer scientists but to teach skills that will help them be successful in their studies at Northeastern and in the academic and professional work they pursue.
The DITI Team
The Co-Directors of the DITI are Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Distinguished Professor of English; Laura Nelson, Assistant Professor of Sociology; and Sarah Connell, NULab Assistant Director. The current team members are listed below, along with some of the skills they are able to bring to class partnerships.
Colleen Nugent, History Ph.D. Student
DITI Assistant Director, 2022
- Mapping (CARTO, QGIS, ArcGIS, Google My Maps)
- Website building (WordPress, Wix)
- Digital storytelling (Knight Lab’s StoryMaps and Timeline)
- Video Editing (FinalCut Pro, Panopto, iMovie)
- Computational Text Analysis (Voyant, Lexos)
- Citation management (Zotero)
- GitHub
- R Studio
- MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Google suite (Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides)
- Podcasting (Audacity)
- Digital Publication (Scalar)
Ana Abraham, Political Science Ph.D. Candidate
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, Summer 2022
- Computational Text Analysis (Voyant, Lexos)
- Mapping (ArcGIS, qGIS)
- MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
- Google Suite (Docs, Sheet, Slides)
Anna Zhang, Sociology Ph.D. Student
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, Summer 2022
- Mapping (ArcGIS)
- Citation management (Zotero)
- R Studio
- Python
- MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Google Suite (Docs, Sheet, Slides)
- STATA and SPSS
- NVivo
Chris McNulty, History Ph.D. Student
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, Summer 2022
- Digital storytelling (Knight Lab’s StoryMaps and Timeline, ArcGIS Storymaps, Google Maps)
- Citation Management (Zotero)
- Google suite (Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides)
- MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Podcasting (Audacity)
- GitHub
Dipa Desai, Public Policy and Urban Affairs Ph.D. student
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, Summer 2022
- Qualitative analyses (NVIVO)
- Spatial Mapping (KnightLabs StoryMap, GIS, Google Earth)
- Quantitative analyses (STATA)
- MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
- Google Drive Suite (Docs, Slides, Forms, Sheets)
- Citation Management (Zotero)
Margarida Soares Rodrigues, Political Science Ph.D. Student
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, Summer 2022
- Digital storytelling (Knight Lab’s StoryMaps)
- Citation management (Zotero)
- Computational Statistics (R)
- Data manipulation and visualization (R)
- Statistical modeling (Stata)
- MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Google suite (Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides)
Yunus Emre Tapan, Political Science Ph.D. student
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, Summer 2022
- Computational Statistics (R)
- Machine Learning (R)
- Data Manipulation, Visualization, and Reporting (R)
- Computational Text Analysis (R, Python)
- Network Analysis (R)
- Network Visualization (Gephi)
- Data Ethics and Algorithmic Bias
- GitHub
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