We made it! Thanks everyone! ❤️

Almost there! 🚀

Final stretch to refine the findings and narratives for our poster and presentation. Thanks for the inspirations @villevaara.bsky.social

Karaoke! 🎵💃

Before Milestone 2 presentation

Making progress! Rebecca has plotted the frequencies of sugar and tobacco over the years with the sample corpus of 25000 ads. We’re trying to interpret the results in relation to historical contexts and events.

The second week of the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2025 has started! Trying to stitch everything together and plan for next steps.

Wrapping up the first week!

Visualizing colonial trade in British newspapers!
One of our team members mapped the mentions of colonial trade locations (excluding the Americas) based on historical news articles.
Check out this animation to see how these locations appeared over time! 🗺️✨
#DigitalHumanities #DataVisualization

Teamwork

Day 2 of Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2025! We've identified our research question - How was colonialism represented in early modern British newspapers? We are exploring geography, ads, and typology through interdisciplinary collaboration. Thank you everyone for the efforts so far!