Sapping Attention

[Update: I've consolidated all of my TV anachronisms posts at a different blog, Prochronism , and new ones on Mad Men, Deadwood, Downton...

A quick follow-up on this issue of author gender . In my last post, I looked at first names as a rough gauge of author gender to see who ...

I just saw that various Digital Humanists on Twitter were talking about representativeness, exclusion of women from digital archives, and o...

I wanted to try to replicate and slightly expand Ted Underwood's recent discussion of genre formation over time using the Bookworm data...

[Update: I've consolidated all of my TV anachronisms posts at a different blog, Prochronism , and new ones on Mad Men, Deadwood, Downton...

I. The new USIH blogger LD Burnett has a post up expressing ambivalence about the digital humanities because it is too eager to reject book...

[Update: I've consolidated all of my TV anachronisms posts at a different blog, Prochronism , and new ones on Mad Men, Deadwood, Downton...

Though I usually work with the Bookworm database of Open Library texts, I've been playing a bit more with the Google Ngram data sets la...

Another January, another set of hand-wringing about the humanities job market. So, allow me a brief departure from the digital humanities. F...

[This is not what I'll be saying at the AHA on Sunday morning, since I'm participating in a panel discussion with Stefan Sinclair, T...

When data exploration produces Christmas-themed charts, that's a sign it's time to post again. So here's a chart and a problem. ...

Ted Underwood has been talking up the advantages of the Mann-Whitney test over Dunning's Log-likelihood , which is currently more widely...

I may (or may not) be about to dash off a string of corpus-comparison posts to follow up the ones I've been making the last month. On th...

A few points following up my two posts on corpus comparison using Dunning Log-Likelihood last month. Nur ein stueck Technik. Ted said in...

Natalie Cecire recently started an important debate about the role of theory in the digital humanities. She's rightly concerned that th...