Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Meaning chains with word embeddings

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Matthew Lincoln recently put up a Twitter bot that walks through chains of historical artwork by vector space similarity. https://twitter.co...
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Friday, September 15, 2017

"Peer review" is younger than you think. Does that mean it can go away?

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This is a blog post I've had sitting around in some form for a few years; I wanted to post it today because: 1) It's about peer r...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

Population Density 2: Old and New New England

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Digging through old census data, I realized that Wikipedia has some really amazing town-level historical population data, particularly for t...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Population Density 1: Do cities have a land area? And a literal use of the Joy Division map

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I've been doing a lot of reading about population density cartography recently. With election-map cartography remaining a major issue, t...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

What is described as belonging to the "public" versus the "government?"

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Robert Leonard has an op-ed in the Times today that includes the following anecdote: Out here some conservatives aren’t even calling them...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

A brief visual history of MARC cataloging at the Library of Congress.

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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 ...
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Friday, April 14, 2017

The history of looking at data visualizations

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One of the interesting things about contemporary data visualization is that the field has a deep sense of its own history, but that "pr...
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Friday, December 23, 2016

Some notes on corpora for diachronic word2vec

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I want to post a quick methodological note on diachronic (and other forms of comparative) word2vec models. This is a really interesting fi...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

OCR failures in 2016

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This is a quick digital-humanities public service post with a few sketchy questions about OCR as performed by Google. When I started worki...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

A 192-year heatmap of presidential elections with a y axis ordering you have to see to believe

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Like everyone else, I've been churning over the election results all month. Setting aside the important stuff, understanding election re...
Friday, September 9, 2016

The efficient plots hypothesis

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I'm pulling this discussion out of the comments thread on Scott Enderle's blog , because it's fun. This is the formal statement ...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Language is biased. What should engineers do?

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Word embedding models are kicking up some interesting debates at the confluence of ethics, semantics, computer science, and structuralism. H...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Why Digital Humanists don't need to understand algorithms, but do need to understand transformations

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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 is now online, and includes my contribution, "Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithm...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Plot arceology 2016: emotion and tension

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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...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Nature publishes flat-earth research paper

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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...
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