Sharon Howard
By trade, I'm a historian of early modern Britain and a digital historian, and since 2006 I've managed several large digital history projects. I’m an enthusiast for open history data; I play with databases and write terrible code.
This website is a playground and a repository, where I want to bring together digital history and data science while working on writing better code (mostly in R, using Rmarkdown, and maybe some Python). All code and data will be shared here and/or on Github.
1 April 2023
Sometimes you want to convert variable names or text strings to, say, snake_case or CamelCase. This is a common issue when you’re importing spreadsheets or mixed data sources into...
1 March 2023
Problem: I had a dataset in which values had been summarised, but for a particular analysis I wanted to dis-aggregate them. Solution: tidyr::uncount(). Does the opposite of dplyr::count()....
Westminster Coroners Inquests 1760-1799, Part
10 January 2021
Introduction The data boilerplate stopwords Top words in verdict categories Word frequencies TF-IDF (term frequency-Inverse document frequency) Weighted log odds ratios Resources...
Going Interactive with Old Bailey Online Data
1 October 2020
D3.js: unfinished business Data Sunburst Circle Packing diagram Networks A few more resources D3.js: unfinished business My first efforts at interactive data visualisations go back...