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Text Analysis I
As an Early Modernist, text analysis has come up quite frequently in my studies. Ted Underwood discusses in “A Geneaology of Distant Reading” that distant reading is not some recent creation fueled by computers. Scholars have been counting rhyme endings, specific images, and manually modelling topics for decades before Franco Moretti (who also made use…
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Content Management
Selecting a content management system to fit your DH project is crucial; and, as pointed out in the “Choosing a platform” essay for this weeks reading is determined by several things: functionality, familiarity, community, support, and cost. Personally, I have the most experience with WordPress (which I’m using for this blog) and Omeka (which I’m…
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Shapes of Data
On October 4, 2018 at about 10 am, I joined my colleagues in an event space at the University of Kansas to participate in the Digital Frontiers conference. That morning, Lauren Klein was giving the keynote lecture “Data Feminism: Community, Allyship, and Action in the Digital Humanities,” and she started the talk with a look…