Time for R
Here at OU, there are at least 4 or 5 that teach introductory R. You can take a statistics class, an economics class, a biological stats class, or a class just on R as a programming language. R has…
Doing History
I am Open (and so can you!)
For the next few weeks, I will be taking a history course, something I thought I would never do again after I finished my dissertation. Shawn Graham is
Digital Note-taking in the History Classroom
One of the projects I’ve been most excited about this semester revolves around an effort to teach history students how to take notes using an online database. The central point of my own digi…
Open Notes for Deep Maps
For the last couple of years, I have been working with my colleague John Perkins on building a database called Situating Chemistry. With this database we have been collecting information about the …
Transcribing Joseph Black’s Chemistry Lectures
Joseph Black (1728-1799) was one of the best known and most influential chemists during the second half of the eighteenth century. Black’s correspondence, recently published by Jean Jones an…