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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

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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

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The Digital Humanities as a Donkey

Advice animals are a long-established method of passing along knowledge and learning about subject matter, especially academic. But I have found no Digital Humanities advice animal, and so I offer up the only slightly used ORBIS donkey. I think we … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Accidental Plagiarism

Karl Grossner, my colleague here at Stanford who I work with supporting digital humanities research, got a chance to read my previous post on geospatial information visualization. Karl’s got a PhD in geography and a bit of experience with geospatial … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a job at Stanford

Stanford has been hiring digital humanists for some time now, though only occasionally by name. It’s currently looking for another, though the title is technically Academic Technology Specialist for History. I’ve heard some trepidation about this position, and positions like … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a Part of the New Aesthetic

When Ian Bogost and Mike Migurski both mention the same term in close chronological proximity, I feel the need to pay attention. Of course, the one thinks it’s more fodder for taking seriously the personhood of objects (so much so … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a Journal (of)

The inaugural edition of the Journal of the Digital Humanities is now online, and includes an article by me in the Conversations section titled Digital Humanities as Thunderdome. I will resist posting a photo of Tina Turner and Mel Gibson so as … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a Slideshow

This morning I gave a presentation on the role of data visualization in DH work. The annotated slides can be found on Google Docs here.  

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The Digital Humanities as a Growth Industry

I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to announce that Karl Grossner has joined me here at Stanford as the new Digital Humanities Developer.  Karl holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2010), and … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as Infographic

Melissa Terras has produced this excellent (and very long) summation of current interest and activity in the Digital Humanities. Or is it, “in digital humanities”? We still haven’t figured that out, have we?

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