This post is about my experiences at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) held at the University of Victoria, June 5-10 2013.   Last month I attended my first DHSI on UVic’s idyllic campus. In just five days I became proficient in the notoriously difficult ArcGIS; moved my research several, big steps forward; and met some wonderful folks working on amazing projects. The course I was enrolled in, “Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the Digital… 6 Things to Consider when Building a Dataset from Scratch