Back in 2007 I had the temerity to suggest that H-Net’s days might be numbered. That suggestion earned me, among other things, the title “renegade blogger.” Now, it seems, I’ve made the transition to “sociopathic pond scum.” As I told some teenagers last night, I suppose that means I’ve finally arrived on the Internet. A [...]
There seems to be a lot of topic modelling going on at the moment. Any why not? Projects like Mining the Dispatch are demonstrating the possibilities. Tools like Mallet are making it easy. And generous DHers like Ted Underwood and Scott Weingart are doing a great job explaining what it is and how it works. [...]
Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia: A Symposium on the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. November 8, 2012 1 pm to 4 pm John Hope Franklin Center (Duke University), with live, interactive UStream …
A month or so ago, I posted about whether blogging and tweeting about academic research papers was “worth it”. Whilst writing up my thoughts, the one thing that I found really problematic was the following:I also know nothing about how many times my ot…
Note: the Blueprint book club will start next week. Sorry for the delay.
It’s not every day you find a prototype in the bathroom.
Last week, I sat down on a toilet in our museum and found myself looking at an
interactive station intended to te…
What is Missing? by Maya Lin seeks to raise awareness about the mass extinction of species. It has a beautiful …
Maps usually display only one layer of information. In most cases, they’re limited to the topography, place names and traffic infrastructure of a certain region. True, this is very useful, and in all fairness quite often it’s all we ask for. But to red…
Single data points from a large dataset can make it more relatable, but those individual numbers don’t mean much without something to compare to. That’s where distributions come in, which happen to be a strength of R.
Following the reveal of my students’ hoaxes from this semester, Yoni Appelbaum, a correspondent for The Atlantic, wrote a very interesting piece on the course itself and the lessons we can learn for why the 2008 hoax was more successful (seemingly) than the 2012 hoaxes. Appelbaum’s piece focuses on the strength or weakness of various [...]
There's a new version of Spreadsheet Mapper out. I used version 2 in the past and thought it was terrific. I was under the impression that Google Fusion Tables would replace Spreadsheet Mapper but I guess I was mistaken.If you have a spreadshe…
Over the course of 2 or 3 decades I did a lot of technical support. That was my way of staying close to the game while avoiding the worst of the careerist entanglements.
It’s 2012, and everytime I try to use a system I get the same sort of SNAFU…
After 2 very similar posts in a very small timeframe, featuring Easel.ly and infogr.am respectively, I seem not to be able to follow the ‘automatic infographics editing’ scene fast enough.
Automatic resume infographics creator visualize.me has just l…
A few days ago, we posted the website Easel.ly, a new web-based service that aims to empower lay users to design infographic-like illustrations within the browser. Unfortunately, Easel.ly seems more apt in combining infographic-like images on a canvas…
The movie “Epic time-lapse map of Europe” fast forwards a map from the year 1000 AD until 2003 to reveal the dynamic nature of Europe’s borders, alliances, unions, territories, and occupied lands.
An alternative movie takes a bit longer, but contain…
Monday 12 September 2011
Social media is becoming increasingly important in teaching and research work but tutors must remember, it’s a conversation not a lecture, says Ernesto Priego
In chapter two of Christian Vandendorpe’s From Papyrus to …
