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    Doing Digital Humanities

    Looking back at this digital humanties project that I completed at the end of my first semester in graduate school has proved a positive but at times challenging learning experience. I used the Watergate Special Prosecution Force Transcripts from the years 1971 to 1973. Imported the transcribed PDFs into Voyant 2.4. During my initial take at this project, I thought that it would be a simple idea of just importing the transcript PDFs and see what I get as an output. As I used the Voyant tool more, I realized two important lessons:1. I needed to rename the PDFs so that I can understand what day the transcript is referring…