Sapping Attention

I periodically write about Google Books here, so I thought I'd point out something that I've noticed recently that should be concern...

I did a slightly deeper dive into data about the salaries by college majors while working on my new Atlantic article on the humanities crisi...

NOTE 8/23: I've written a more thoughtful version of this argument for the Atlantic.  They're not the same, but if you only read one...

Historians generally acknowledge that both undergraduate and graduate methods training need to teach students how to navigate and understand...

Matthew Lincoln recently put up a Twitter bot that walks through chains of historical artwork by vector space similarity. https://twitter.co...

This is a blog post I've had sitting around in some form for a few years; I wanted to post it today because: 1) It's about peer r...

Digging through old census data, I realized that Wikipedia has some really amazing town-level historical population data, particularly for t...

I've been doing a lot of reading about population density cartography recently. With election-map cartography remaining a major issue, t...

Robert Leonard has an op-ed in the Times today that includes the following anecdote: Out here some conservatives aren’t even calling them...

The Library of Congress has released MARC records that I'll be doing more with over the next several months to understand the books and ...

One of the interesting things about contemporary data visualization is that the field has a deep sense of its own history, but that "pr...

I want to post a quick methodological note on diachronic (and other forms of comparative) word2vec models. This is a really interesting fi...

This is a quick digital-humanities public service post with a few sketchy questions about OCR as performed by Google. When I started worki...

Like everyone else, I've been churning over the election results all month. Setting aside the important stuff, understanding election re...

I'm pulling this discussion out of the comments thread on Scott Enderle's blog , because it's fun. This is the formal statement ...