Sapping Attention

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

Word embedding models are kicking up some interesting debates at the confluence of ethics, semantics, computer science, and structuralism. H...

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 is now online, and includes my contribution, "Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithm...

Some scientists came up with a list of the 6 core story types . On the surface, this is extremely similar to Matt Jockers's work from l...

I usually keep my mouth shut in the face of the many hilarious errors that crop up in the burgeoning world of datasets for cultural analyti...

I started this post with a few digital-humanities posturing paragraphs: if you want to read them, you'll encounter them eventually. But ...

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...