Sapping Attention

As promised, some quick thoughts broken off my post on Dunning Log-likelihood . There, I looked at _big_ corpuses--two history classes o...

Historians often hope that digitized texts will enable better, faster comparisons of groups of texts. Now that at least the 1grams on Bookwo...

We just launched a new website, Bookworm , from the Cultural Observatory. I might have a lot to say about it from different perspectives; bu...

We've been working on making a different type of browser using the Open Library books I've been working with to date, and it's r...

Hank wants me to post more, so here's a little problem I'm working on. I think it's a good example of how quantitative analysis ...

I mentioned earlier I've been rebuilding my database; I've also been talking to some of the people here at Harvard about various fol...

Starting this month, I’m moving from New Jersey to do a fellowship at the Harvard Cultural Observatory . This should be a very interesting ...

Let me get back into the blogging swing with a (too long—this is why I can't handle Twitter, folks) reflection on an offhand comment. Do...

Before end-of-semester madness, I was looking at how shifts in vocabulary usage occur. In many cases, I found, vocabulary change doesn't...

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how ancestry.com structured census data for genealogy, not history, and how that limits what historians ...

All the cool kids are talking about shortcomings in digitized text databases. I don't have anything so detailed to say as what Goose Com...

Let's start with two self-evident facts about how print culture changes over time: The words that writers use change. Some words flare ...

Shane Landrum (@cliotropic) says my claim that historians have different digital infrastructural needs than other fields might be provocat...

When I first thought about using digital texts to track shifts in language usage over time, the largest reliable repository of e-texts was P...

Let me step away from digital humanities for just a second to say one thing about the Cronon affair . (Despite the professor-blogging angle...