Sapping Attention

What are the major turning points in history? One way to think about that is to simply look at the most frequent dates used to start or end ...

Here's some inside baseball: the trends in periodization in history dissertations since the beginning of the American historical profess...

The new issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities is up as of yesterday: it includes an  article of mine, "Words Alone," on the ...

The hardest thing about studying massive quantities of digital texts is knowing just what texts you have. This is knowlege that we haven...

My last post had the aggregate statistics about which parts of the library have more female characters . (Relatively). But in some ways, it...

Now back to some texts for a bit. Last spring, I posted a few times about the possibilities for reading genders in large collections of book...

I'm cross-posting here a piece from my language anachronisms blog, Prochronisms . It won't appear the language blog for a week or ...

My last post was about how the frustrating imprecisions of language drive humanists towards using statistical aggregates instead of words : ...

Just a quick post to point readers of this blog to my new Atlantic article on anachronisms in Kushner/Spielberg's Lincoln ; and to direc...

Following up on my previous topic modeling post , I want to talk about one thing humanists actually do with topic models once they build the...

A stray idea left over from my whaling series : just how much should digital humanists be flocking to military history? Obviously the field ...

[Temporary note, March 2015: those arriving from reddit may also be interested in  this post , which has a bit more about the specific image...

Note: this post is part 5 of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . In the central post in my...

Note: this post is part 4, section 2 of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . One reason I...

Note: this post is part 4 of my series on whaling logs and digital history . For the full overview, click here . As part of my essay visu...