Posts tagged as Digital Humanities

Since the late 1990s, the business world and academia alike have seen the rise of the data scientist. Though the term data science dates back to early 1960s, figure of the data scientist took on additional cache with the popularization of the World Wide Web and the data revolution that accompanied it.

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.

With the spring semester over, I've been coming back to a project I haven't worked on in almost a year.

What follows is a copy of my remarks from a talk at Duquesne University in February 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>

This post is response to Andrew Piper's recent "An Open Letter to the MLA"

This summer I've been turning my attention back to my book project, which has been slowly taking shape for several years.

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 ...

A copy of my recent conference presentation at the 2019 Cather International Seminar

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.

My presentation for the "New Horizons in Network Analysis" panel at the 2019 meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)

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.