Finding errors in JavaScript code both during application development and when it’s already released is an important part of web development. We’ve recently added a mechanism for handling uncaught JavaScript exceptions and made some improvements in the tools that allow you to work with stack traces. Now it’s a good time to summarize the ways [...]
Archive for April 2011
Thanks to Daisy V. Domínguez for pointing this out on the Ithaka site : Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2010: Academic Library Collections This webinar will focus on changing trends in collections management and development. Wednesday, April 20th, 12:00-1:00 pm (EDT)
It seems that the next frontier of popular data visualization might focus on the usage tracking data that is generated by default by the powerful sensing device in your pocket: the smart phone. Several iPhone/Android projects visualizing usage data ar…
When you first come across a Twitter account it can be hard to know if you want to follow that person or organization, based on the most recent tweets. Jeff Clark’s Tweet Topic Explorer gives you a quick view of that. Enter a username, and you get a clustered cloud of bubbles. Larger bubbles indicate [...]
Young actresses are required to perform monologues for almost every theatrical audition and acting class they take and yet finding an appropriate monologue can be quite difficult. This project provides actresses with a database of monologues from plays and movies, along with basic information about each piece. The monologues are organized and searchable by genre, [...]
When Hitler’s troops invaded and occupied the city of Kharkov in Ukraine, my grandparents Nadia, 26, and Petro, 30, had two young children, aged 7 and 5. My mother had not yet been born. In this tense and uncertain period it was unclear whether Ukrai…
The preliminary conference program is now online. Be advised that there may have to be tweaks here and there, but we think this is a fairly stable schedule of sessions.
The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce twenty-two new awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program from our October 5, 2010 deadline. These awards are part of a larger slate of 216 grants just announced by the NEH.
Congratul…
The Office of Digital Humanities is happy to announce twenty-two new awards from our Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program. These awards are part of a larger slate of 216 grants just announced by the NEH.
Congratulations to all the awardees for the…
Scholar Class 2011
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I am the new research assistant for 4Humanities, an advocacy collective spearheaded by Alan Liu here at UCSB, Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta)
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In the most recent issue of the literary magazine n+1, Nicolas Dames reviews three recent books on the value of the humanities, Terry Castle’s The Professor and Other Writings, Louis Menand’s The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance …
This past term I gave a graduate course, in collaboration with Jeff Trzeciak, on “Technologies of Communication” and tried something that feels a bit subversive: I didn’t assign any essays. Of course, I’m almost certainly not…
In an op-ed for CNN and perhaps adding fuel to the fire, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas, leaders of Google’s Big Picture project, talk visualization and its future. In reference to rules of simplicity and the data-to-ink ratio derived from works such as that of William Cleveland and Robert McGill: The single-minded pursuit of clarity [...]
UCLDH have teamed up with UCL CIBER team, the Digital Learning Network, and the British Library to bring you another Digital Think Drink!
Following on from the success at the Petrie Museum, it’s now the turn of the British Libr…
