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 Lawrence Evalyn, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, and Sarah Connell, NULab Associate 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, 2022—2023
- Computational Text Analysis (Voyant, Lexos)
- Mapping (ArcGIS, qGIS)
- MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
- Google Suite (Docs, Sheet, Slides)
Benjamin Grey, History Ph.D. Student
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, 2022—2023
- Digital storytelling (Knight Lab’s StoryMaps, Google MyMaps)
- Podcasting (Audacity)
- Website building (WordPress)
- Digital Publication (Scalar)
- Text encoding (TEI, XML, Oxygen)
- Citation management (Zotero)
- Google suite (Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides)
- MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- GitHub
Chris McNulty, History Ph.D. Student
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, 2022—2023
- 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, 2022—2023
- 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)
Juniper Johnson, English Ph.D. Student
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, 2022—2023
- Website Building (WordPress, Reclaim Hosting, Wix, Jykell and GitHub Pages)
- Text Encoding and Schema Development/Customization (TEI, XML, Oxygen, XSLT, XQUERY, RegEx)
- Digital Storytelling (Knight Lab’s StoryMaps and Timeline, Google MyMaps, Leaflet)
- Computational Text Analysis and Machine Learning for Texts (Voyant, Lexos, R, Python)
- Data and Digital Accessibility
- Digital Editing and Publishing (WordPress, Scalar, Markup)
- Linked Data and Semantic Data (SKOS, RDF)
- Digital Archives and Archival Description (Omeka, Dublin Core, LCSH, Ontologies)
- GitHub
- R/R Studio
- Citation Management
- Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides)
- MS Office Suite (Word, Excell, Powerpoint)
- Podcasting (Audacity)
Javier Rosario, English MA Student
DITI Research/Teaching Fellow, 2022—2023
- Knight Lab’s StoryMaps
- Infographics (Canva, Piktochart, Vennage, Infogram)
- Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides)
- MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Text Encoding (TEI, XML, Oxygen)
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