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Hidden Legends
A couple of variations on representing biodiversity databases: The first is the radial layout in Gephi, which functionally transitions an excellent network analysis and visualization package into a tool for beautiful representation of variation in non-network data. Color, once again, … Continue reading
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The Digital Humanities as Hackerspace
Today is the first attempt at creating a Humanities Hackerspace here at Stanford. I’ll be joining Ryan Heuser, hacker and lab manager for the Literary Lab, and the possibility of more Stanford alt-ac types (like Academic Technology Specialists Matt Jockers … Continue reading
Meaningful Research in Google Maps
I had an interesting discussion yesterday with Joseph Kautz, head of Stanford’s Digital Language Lab and Academic Technology Specialist, about creating mobile apps for mapping languages. It made me wonder about how language appears in the commercialized and relatively utilitarian … Continue reading
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DH11 Day 1, Pt. 1, §2: Natural Language Processing
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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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…
June 18, 2011
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Visualizing Literary History Before Noon
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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Gephi is like Photoshop for Networks
At least, that’s how the sales pitch goes. I don’t use Photoshop much, so I have no idea if it has the same kind of beautiful data transformation features as Gephi. One of the newest layouts is a simple radial … Continue reading
Posted in DH2011, Graph Data Model, Tools, Visualization
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Apropos of my recent post on spatial services, I just noticed that DHQ has Patrik Svensson’s latest DH article up, which this time deals with practical and conceptual infrastructure being developed to support DH. This is simultaneously my first “aside” … Continue reading
May 31, 2011
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Meaningful Centralized Spatial Services
Lately, I’ve been trying to build a formal continuum of spatial services based on audience, analytical complexity and sustainability to orient scholars and spatial services providers when assessing prospective projects. Too often, researchers are using ArcGIS for duties better served … Continue reading
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Another Gephi Workshop
I’ll be hosting a second Gephi Workshop at Noisebridge in San Francisco on May 18th at 6:30PM. Space is limited–you can find more details here.
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