December 15, 2016
Not very long ago, one of my colleagues hired a programmer for his institution's digital humanities initiative. In advertising the position, he designed a set of three challenges designed to test candidates for baseline competency with programming as it might apply to the humanities.
June 01, 2017
With the spring semester over, I've been coming back to a project I haven't worked on in almost a year.
August 01, 2017
What follows is a copy of my remarks from a talk at Duquesne University in February 2017.
October 01, 2017
In May of 1905, a review of <em>The Troll Garden</em>, Willa Cather’s first published collection of short stories, appeared in <em>The New York Times</em>
December 27, 2017
This post is response to Andrew Piper's recent "An Open Letter to the MLA"
June 06, 2019
This summer I've been turning my attention back to my book project, which has been slowly taking shape for several years.
June 10, 2019
In my last post, I discussed Paul Silvia's <em>How to Write a Lot</em> and promised to describe my book project in greater detail ...
July 15, 2019
For the past four weeks (minus a week for Willa Cather camp), I've been doing some experiments with a large corpus of book reviews.
August 01, 2019
My presentation for the "New Horizons in Network Analysis" panel at the 2019 meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
September 03, 2019
More on my efforts to classify items as likely to be reviews and extract key information from book reviews, such as the reviewed author, the reviewed title, the book's publisher, the price, the likely genre, etc.