Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH17 - 15–19 May 2017
The hackathon aims to bring together students and researchers of humanities, social sciences and computer science, for a week of active co-operation in groups under the heading of digital humanities.
Computer science and other students with sufficient programming skills may join without prior digital humanities studies. Successful participation gives 3–5 ECTS credits.
Digital humanities, as understood here, is about applying modern data processing to solve research questions in the humanities and social sciences. At its best, this offers unique benefits for both fields: scholars in the humanities are able to tackle questions too labour-intensive for manual study, while computer scientists encounter new and challenging use cases for the tools and algorithms they develop.
The hackathon consists of intensive work in small groups, formulating research questions with respect to particular data sets, applying and developing methods and tools, and presenting the work at the end of the week. For information on what the hackathon was like in previous years, see: #DHH16 and #DHH15.
During the hackathon, the participants will learn how to work in multidisciplinary research projects. The hackathon will also broaden their understanding of digital humanities, and what is possible to achieve with such collaboration.
For more information, see the hackathon web pages at
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-humanities-helsinki/digital-humanities-hackathon-2017
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-humanities-helsinki/digital-humanities-hackathon-2017
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