Learning Pathway

The DH Scholar Pathway

The complete route from newcomer to independent computational DH researcher — the same skill layers behind every research platform on this site, in the order to learn them. Your progress is measured module by module across five tiers.

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1

Foundations

The entry ticket: Python, computing fundamentals, and the command line. Everything later assumes these.

Python for Humanities Scholars Coming soon
Python is the working language of every pipeline in this curriculum.
IT Fundamentals: CompTIA ITF+ Track Coming soon
Files, networks, databases, operating systems — the substrate research runs on.
2

The Data Science Core

The analysis skills: from framing a question to trusting your results. Taught method-first, with real DH research projects as the labs.

Data Science for Digital Humanities
The spine of the pathway: 17 skill modules, each grounded in a live DH project.
Data Science Applied to Housing and Migration Data
The depth companion: statistics and modeling through one sustained case study.
Intro to Machine Learning for Digital Humanists (No-Code Track) Coming soon
No-code on-ramp to ML concepts before you meet them again in code.
Voyant Tools and Spyral: From Start to Intermediate
Text analysis with click-tools — the fastest first results in DH.
Stylometry and Authorship Attribution with Stylo Coming soon
Classic quantitative text analysis: authorship attribution with Stylo.
3

Research Engineering

What separates a researcher-engineer from a notebook analyst: every study on this platform is a running system, not a script.

Django Mastery 1: Foundations & Setup Coming soon
Web applications as research instruments — start here.
Django Mastery 2: Databases, Models & Migrations Coming soon
Relational schemas for annotation workflows and research corpora.
Django Mastery 3: Views, Templates & Forms Coming soon
Turning a dataset into an interface collaborators can use.
Django Mastery 4: Authentication, Roles & Admin Coming soon
Multi-user research platforms: roles, review queues, admin tooling.
Django Mastery 5: Deployment, Static Files & Scaling Coming soon
Docker, deployment, and keeping a research system alive.
4

AI-Augmented Practice

Directing AI systems as research instruments: coders, retrievers, generators, and agents — and knowing what must stay human-verified.

Coding with LLMs: A Method Family for Digital Humanities Research Coming soon
LLMs as trained qualitative coders — the full method family.
Building RAG for DH Projects Coming soon
Retrieval-augmented pipelines over your own collections.
MCP for Digital Humanities: From APIs and RAG to Tool-Using AI
Tool-using AI: from APIs and RAG to MCP servers for DH work.
DH Projects and Chatbots in the Age of AI Coming soon
Conversational interfaces to DH projects, done responsibly.
5

Scholarly Practice

Turning pipelines into publications and sustainable projects: methodology you can defend, writing you can submit, projects that outlive the grant.

Trans-Migration Discourse Analysis: Methodology Coming soon
A complete research study end-to-end: five corpora, 669 documents, defensible method.
Scholarly Publishing with Open Journal Systems (OJS) Coming soon
Running the publication side: Open Journal Systems.
Developing DH Projects in Africa
Situating and sustaining DH projects in real institutional contexts.