Category Archives: DH2011

DH11 Network Graphs

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Just a quick note for anyone that wants to critique, analyze or browse the networks I used to create the DH2011 Network Visualization page.  I put the original .gephi project file along with csv, gdf, gexf and graphml versions of … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as Culturomics

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Erez Aiden and JB Michel just finished their keynote and signaled the end of DH11 (except for a dinner and a few tours of Northern California) and capped off what was, for me, an extremely enjoyable and terribly useful conference.  … Continue reading →

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Julia Flanders found my use of the Los Angeles Raiders great, Vincent “Bo” Jackson, to be a poor representation of California.  Given her dominant position within the large “Imperial” component of the DH11 network, as well as her excellent paper, … Continue reading →

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Elijah Meeks | Comments Off

DH11 Opening Keynote: David Rumsey

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I’m happy David Rumsey was asked to open up this year’s Digital Humanities conference because it gave me a chance to personally thank him for making my work, and the work any scholar who needs historical maps from the periods … Continue reading →

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DH11 Day 1, Pt. 1, §2: Natural Language Processing

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Today I’m taking the popular Natural Language Processing class led by Stanford’s Chris Manning, who refers to the concept as computational exploration of corpora–another way to express Moretti’s distant reading–but also as “shallow analyses of large scale text”.  Interestingly, shallow … Continue reading →

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Authentic California Culture

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Tecmo’s US headquarters was in Terrence, CA.  The greatest Tecmo Bowl player played for the Los Angeles Raiders.  If we must orientalize California, let us move beyond hippies. Bo knows the Digital Humanities.

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Stan Reucker is now demonstrating the Mandala Browser, which allows me to visualize the usage of “love” and “death” among Juliet, Mercutio and Romeo. And for those cultural theorists out there, I’m using asides because I don’t tweet…

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Elijah Meeks | Comments Off

Visualizing Literary History Before Noon

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

This year’s conference has a tempting selection of workshops and among them is Visualizing Literary History, provided by Susan Brown, Stan Ruecker, Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair–which I’m in the process of attending.  The workshop focuses on a suite of … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities 2011 Day 0

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

It’s the first pre-conference workshop day for this year’s Digital Humanities conference.  I’ll be taking part in the Visualizing Literary History workshop and vigorously protesting the orientalization of California and Californians as depicted by the conference attire, logo, internet password, … Continue reading →

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Visualizing DH11

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

John Unsworth was good enough to send me the participant list for the upcoming Digital Humanities 2011 Conference and I tried to put together a few interesting visualizations of the participants, sessions and institutions that will make up this year’s … Continue reading →

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