Sapping Attention

A heads-up for those with this blog on their RSS feeds: I've just posted a couple things of potential interest on one of the two other b...

Mitch Fraas and I have put together a two-part interactive for the Atlantic using Bookworm as a backend to look at the changing language in ...

Far and away the most interesting idea of the new government college ratings emerges toward the end of the report. It doesn't quite squa...

Before the holiday, the Department of Education circulated a draft prospectus of the new college rankings they hope to release next year. T...

Sometimes it takes time to make a data visualization, and sometimes they just fall out of the data practically by accident. Probably the mos...

Note: a somewhat more complete and slightly less colloquial, but eminently more citeable, version of this work is in the Proceedings of the ...

The most interesting element of the Bookworm browser for movies  I wrote about i n my last post here  is the possibility to delve into the e...

Here's a very fun, and for some purposes, perhaps, a very useful thing: a Bookworm browser that lets you investigate onscreen language i...

An FYI, mostly for people following this feed on RSS: I just put up on my home web site a post about applications for the Simpsons Bookworm ...

Right now people in data visualization tend to be interested in their field’s history, and people in digital humanities tend to be fascinate...

People love to talk about how "practical" different college majors are: and practicality is usually majored in dollars. But those ...

Here's a little irony I've been meaning to post. Large scale book digitization makes tools like Ngrams possible; but it also makes t...

A map I put up a year and a half ago went viral this winter; it shows the paths taken by ships in the US Maury collection of the ICOADS  dat...

OK: one last post about enrollments, since the statistic that humanities degrees have dropped in half since 1970 is all over the news the la...

A quick addendum to my post on long-term enrollment trends in the humanities . (This topic seems to have legs, and I have lots more numbers ...