Accused! GIS & the Salem Witch Trials
Find the Project Here In the Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project established by the University of Virginia, the maps are only a small part of the database. That being said,...
View ArticleIf an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?
A piece in the New York Times this morning explored how software can now replicate an array of human voices to report on topics like sports and economics. While these data-rich and data-reliant...
View ArticleDH Week Four – Thoughts on Computer History Timeline
Well first of all, I am struck by my lack of knowledge in information and media technology as a whole – a hole (pun not intended) which I will start to fill out of curiosity, especially after the few...
View ArticleDH Week Three – Google Ngrams
A word that stuck in my mind throughout The Dynamiter was ‘ague’, a term which sounded surprisingly obsolete to me. To check the occurrence of this word in Google’s Ngram Viewer, I generously expanded...
View ArticleDigital Humanities – two negative aspects
DH – the negative sideAs Kirschenbaum nicely sums up all negative statements in a headline fashion in his elaboration on the excitement and pitfalls of DH, I choose to highlight two arguments in more...
View ArticleInitial thoughts on DH – Laura McAleese
With only marginal knowledge in the field of Digital Humanities, the introductory articles have raised remarkable amount of questions and queries in my mind.Concentrating on Marc Parry’s article about...
View ArticleDH@Ed: Zotero workshop
Detail from screenshot of a topic model visualisation of the Humanities GIS Zotero group library, by PaperMachines Today I’m giving the first in a series of digital humanities workshops at Edinburgh....
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