Why we need more Digital Humanities (one of the reasons, anyway)
This semester I encountered an interesting scenario in an undergraduate student essay. The student had counted the number of occurrences of a couple of words in a poem and concluded that, because the...
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Introducing Serendip-o-matic
I’m proud to introduce the online search tool Serendip-o-matic. From July 28-August 3, I worked with a fabulous group digital humanists to produce this tool from scratch as part of the One Week | One...
View ArticleNEH Funds the Archive of Early Middle English
I’m excited to announce that I have received an NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations grant, which I will co-direct with Dorothy Kim from Vassar College. The grant will help create an Archive of...
View ArticleA Whirlwind Summer
This summer has been something of a whirlwind, which hasn’t left much time for blogging. It began with a mad dash to re-write the Lexomics software, changing the language from PHP to Python. Whilst I...
View ArticleDigital Humanities as Gamified Scholarship
The Digital Humanities trace their origins back to Father Roberto Busa’s efforts to analyse the works of Thomas Aquinas in the 1940s, which was then followed by further efforts to perform textual...
View ArticlePlay as Process and Product: On Making Serendip-o-matic
I’m at the DH 2014 conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, and enjoying it immensely, despite cold and rainy weather which should be impossible in July. I’ve just delivered my paper “Play as Process and...
View ArticleHow to Create Topic Clouds with Lexos
Some Background Topic modelling is gaining increasing momentum as a research method in Digital Humanities, with MALLET as the general tool of choice. However, many would-be topic modellers have...
View ArticleTenure-Track Position in Digital Humanities at California State University,...
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View ArticleHow to Create and Cluster Topic Files in Lexos
This post is a follow-up to last year’s How to Create Topic Clouds with Lexos, where I showed how Lexos can be used to visualise topic models produced by Mallet. From time to time, colleagues have...
View ArticleDigital Humanities Projects with Small and Unusual Data: Some Experiences...
Update March 15 2016: This content was selected for Digital Humanities Now by Editor-in-Chief Joshua Catalano based on nominations by Editors-at-Large: Ann Hanlon, Harika Kottakota, Heather Hill,...
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