THATCamp 2012 in a Nutshell
THATCamp New England is an unconference that brings together scholars working in digital humanities. The 2012 meeting will be held at Brown University. The main unconference will be held on Saturday, October 20, 2012. Workshops will be held the Friday before, October 19.-
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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Exploratory Data Analysis: I’ve graphed my data. Now what?
I’d like to propose a session on exploratory data analysis. While it’s also useful to consider “confirmatory” analysis and visualization when making an argument, I’m interested in the messier, earlier stages of research. The first thing we might do when … Continue reading
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Techno-Haves and Have-Nots
Technological power is political power in the modern world. Yet many activists, humanists, artists, and disenfranchised social groups not only don’t wield technological power, they feel alienated from it. What can we do—as academics, researchers, and citizens—to close this gap? … Continue reading
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Reading Data and Code as Cultural Objects
Our world is run by programs written in code in one or several languages. We increasingly use data that we visualize to interpret, read trends, and “drive” decisions. Code, data sets, and databases are themselves observable, culturally determined objects, often … Continue reading
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Session proposal: Development of a WWII diary project using a database such as KORA
The Naval War College is in process of digitizing the 4,000+ page Command Summary of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, also known as the “Nimitz Gray Book.” This is one of the most important primary sources for World War II … Continue reading
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Best Practices for Open Access Journals
The academy needs open-access. As Bethany Nowviskie has pointed out in a memorable (and revolting) phrase, much of the intellectual product of the academy is “fight club soap.” We produce scholarly work at great cost to our institutions and the … Continue reading
Pandoc (and Jekyll, and LaTeX, oh my!) Hacking Session
Pandoc is a utility written by philosopher John MacFarlane for converting files from one markup format to another. For example, you might write a document in a plain text format then convert it to HTML. I’ll be giving an introduction … Continue reading
Data Visualization: From Discovery Tools to Visual Arguments
I would like to propose a session on data visualization. How we do it (programs, techniques, etc.) and why we do it (data cleaning, discovery tools, visual arguments)? The conversation will hopefully range from theories of information design (Edward Tufte/Ben … Continue reading
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Which (DHish) Blogs, #hashtags and Podcasts do you follow?
I follow a set of bloggers on DH, I read Humanist, I try to catch up on Digital Library discussions, not to mention listening to the Digital Classicist, MITH and Scholars Lab, podcasts as I walk to work in the … Continue reading
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