Categories
- Algorithmic Literacy
- Amusing Historical Map Features
- Big Data
- D3
- DH2011
- Digital Humanities at Stanford
- Digital Scholarly Work
- Drupal
- Gaming
- Graph Data Model
- HGIS
- Interview
- Multiscale Applications
- Natural Law
- New Aesthetic
- New Literature
- ORBIS
- Pedagogy
- Peer Review
- Reviews
- Social Media Literacy
- Spatial Humanities
- Text Analysis
- The Digital Humanities as…
- Tools
- Uncategorized
- Visualization
Meta
Author Archives: Elijah Meeks
So long and thanks for all the digital humanities
This site will no longer be updated after this. There will be no new blog posts, nor explorations of TVTropes or Topic Modeling or occasional interviews with indie videogame developers or webcomic authors. My first post here was back in … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Law
Comments Off
Is Digital Humanities Too Text-Heavy?
Last week was the marvelous international conference for digital humanities, held this year at beautiful University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Over the course of 4 days, I tried desperately to meet people I only knew from tiny Twitter pictures or gitHub or … Continue reading
How Collaboration Works and How It Can Fail
I’ve been working on research-oriented digital humanities projects ever since Ruth Mostern decided to pursue a database version of Hope Wright’s An Alphabetical List of Geographical Names in Sung China in 2007. The goals have varied–sometimes the purpose was to … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Law
Comments Off
Software Development
I’m coming to the end of a long digital humanities project that involves much coding at the database level and with Javascript for the user-facing frontend. It uses D3.js heavily, and does a few things that I think are innovative … Continue reading
Posted in Algorithmic Literacy, D3
Comments Off
Mesoanalysis
With Matt Jockers’ new book out, and the reviews already coming in, I’m starting to find the macroanalysis/microanalysis framework a little lacking. It’s not that I don’t think it a good approach, and it takes many forms in digital humanities … Continue reading
Posted in Algorithmic Literacy, Big Data
Comments Off
The Digital Humanities as a Big Data Conference
The IEEE International Conference on Big Data in July will feature a workshop on Big Data in digital humanities scholarship–which its organizers refer to as Big Humanities. It’s hard to tell what big data means these days. Is 30,000 British … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, The Digital Humanities as...
Comments Off
The Digital Humanities as a Movement Expressed in a Method Enshrined In a Tool
Today marks the release of the Journal of Digital Humanities 2.1, focused on topic modeling and with myself and Scott Weingart as guest editors. It is an excellent collection of material about topic models and topic modeling and their application … Continue reading
Posted in Text Analysis, The Digital Humanities as...
Comments Off
The Cutting Room Floor
The recent release of City Nature leaves behind several static, dynamic, and interactive pieces that, for one reason or another, were not integrated into the final site. One of the reasons I created this blog was to showcase the work … Continue reading
Posted in D3, Digital Scholarly Work, Spatial Humanities, Visualization
Comments Off
City Nature
Today we’re releasing City Nature, the results of work exploring natural environments in urban areas using topic modeling, GIS, and data visualization. The site has rich interactivity, including an amazing parallel coordinates plot that allows you to explore the greenness … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Humanities at Stanford, Spatial Humanities, Text Analysis, Visualization
Comments Off
Toward a Connected Humanities
Zephyr Frank and Erik Steiner were kind enough to give me a chance to discuss networks in humanities scholarship for the Visualizing Evidence course here at Stanford. Here’s the talk.
Posted in Algorithmic Literacy, Graph Data Model, Visualization
Comments Off