Mining the Humanities
Yesterday’s MITH Ditigal Dialogues series brought Aditi Muralidharan to campus to give a talk titled “Large Scale Text Analysis in the Digital Humanities: Methods and Challenges.” Aditi’s talk...
View ArticleWhy networks?
While putting together my logic for why social networks make good models for ekphrasis, I find that it’s important to always keep the instabilities of that decision close at hand. Working with...
View Article“The Venus Hottentot (1925)” as a network
At MSA13 this week, I will be presenting a couple of ways I have started mapping ekphrasis using social network analysis. The following visualization is a very early working through of how to identify...
View ArticleNetworks and Network Analysis for the Humanities: Reunion Conference
On October 20-22, the UCLA Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics will host the “Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities: Reunion Conference.” Participants were 2010 NEH summer...
View ArticlePreparing texts for network visualization
When I presented at MSA 13 earlier this month, I was unsatisfied with my methods for creating network visualizations of texts. I knew that preprocessing automatically would not work yet, since I have...
View ArticleChasing the Great Data Whale
The first thing you hear, or at least that you should hear, when you present an idea for a digital humanities project to someone already familiar with the field is this: “That’s great! [pause] What...
View ArticleSmall Projects & Limited Datasets
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the significance of small projects in an increasingly large-scale DH environment. We seem almost inherently to know the value of “big data:” scale changes the...
View ArticleChunks, Topics, and Themes in LDA
[NB: This post is the continuation of a conversation begun on Ted Underwood’s blog under the post “A touching detail produced by LDA”—in which he demonstrates that there is an overlay between the works...
View ArticleWhy use visualizations to study poetry?
[Note: This post was a DHNow Editor’s Choice on May 1, 2012.] The research I am doing presently uses visualizations to show latent patterns that may be detected in a set of poems using computational...
View ArticleEkphrasis as an LDA Network in NodeXL
In an earlier post, I mention the value of visualizations as a means for exploring topic modeling data. That particular example used a small model of 276 poems labeled “ekphrastic” out of a much...
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