Sapping Attention

The Library of Congress has released MARC records that I'll be doing more with over the next several months to understand the books and ...

One of the interesting things about contemporary data visualization is that the field has a deep sense of its own history, but that "pr...

I want to post a quick methodological note on diachronic (and other forms of comparative) word2vec models. This is a really interesting fi...

This is a quick digital-humanities public service post with a few sketchy questions about OCR as performed by Google. When I started worki...

Like everyone else, I've been churning over the election results all month. Setting aside the important stuff, understanding election re...

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 ...