Chasing the Great Data Whale
The first thing you hear, or at least that you should hear, when you present an idea for a digital humanities project to someone already familiar with the field is this: “That’s great! [pause] What...
View ArticleSmall Projects & Limited Datasets
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the significance of small projects in an increasingly large-scale DH environment. We seem almost inherently to know the value of “big data:” scale changes the...
View ArticleChunks, Topics, and Themes in LDA
[NB: This post is the continuation of a conversation begun on Ted Underwood’s blog under the post “A touching detail produced by LDA”—in which he demonstrates that there is an overlay between the works...
View ArticleWhy use visualizations to study poetry?
[Note: This post was a DHNow Editor's Choice on May 1, 2012.] The research I am doing presently uses visualizations to show latent patterns that may be detected in a set of poems using computational...
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