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Thank you to all the presenters on our book reviews panel at #DH2023! @TedUnderwood, Wenyi, Shang, Melanie Walsh, @maria_antoniak, Yuerong...

Thank you to all the presenters on our book reviews panel at #DH2023! @TedUnderwood, Wenyi, Shang, Melanie Walsh, @maria_antoniak, Yuerong Hu, and all the non-presenting co-authors on the talks as well!

If you need to wrangle with EEBO-TCP for your text analysis project, consider using the EarlyPrint project corpus. They've done a bunch...

If you need to wrangle with EEBO-TCP for your text analysis project, consider using the EarlyPrint project corpus. They've done a bunch of preprocessing to transform "the early English print record, from 1473 to the early 1700s, into a linguistically annotated and deeply searchable text archive." Documentation and tutorials are all really thorough. https://earlyprint.org/about/ https://humanitiesdata.com/resources/436 #CulturalAnalytics #dh #opendata #corpora #eebo-tcp

I let my spam email account build up for a year and here's what learned ...Nothing. I just ignored it until I almost ran out of space...

I let my spam email account build up for a year and here's what learned ...

Nothing. I just ignored it until I almost ran out of space and then deleted everything.

Very excited to see so many #dh #digitalhumanities folks switching fully over to or taking renewed interest in Mastodon! Like many, I...

Very excited to see so many #dh #digitalhumanities folks switching fully over to or taking renewed interest in Mastodon! Like many, I switched over just a month or so ago, but I was already pretty much done with other social media platforms even before Elon's purchase of Twitter. What I like so far on M is the absence of ads/curatorial algorithm, as well as the vibe of conversation over broadcasting and engagement over trolling. I hope we can maintain and augment these aspects of the site.

Here's a #tv #casting question I keep thinking about. If you were making a #willow sequel series in 2022 and were told Val Kilmer was...

Here's a #tv #casting question I keep thinking about. If you were making a #willow sequel series in 2022 and were told Val Kilmer was off the table but you were nevertheless required to recast the role of Madmartigan with an actor of approximately Kilmer's age, physical characteristics, vibe, etc. so that he could more or less work as a Kilmer sub-in, who would be your top pick and why?

Denison is hiring an Instructional Technologist with Quantitative-Data Focus! "Support technology adoption in coursework and...

Denison is hiring an Instructional Technologist with Quantitative-Data Focus! "Support technology adoption in coursework and scholarship in academic departments and programs, especially regarding the growing needs for storing, accessing, computing, and analyzing large data sets in various disciplines, by providing guidance and training to faculty, students, and staff on teaching/learning technologies" ... (https://employment.denison.edu/postings/4033) #dh #highered #jobs

@andrewpiper Lastly, and unrelated to live-polling, planning things out to have smaller groups of students to serve as a panel or this...

@andrewpiper Lastly, and unrelated to live-polling, planning things out to have smaller groups of students to serve as a panel or this week's respondents can be really powerful, the idea being to have everyone in the class be a part of the respondent group at least once per term.

@andrewpiper Using a Google form is ok alternative but, if you put more than one question on it, students have to answer all questions and...

@andrewpiper Using a Google form is ok alternative but, if you put more than one question on it, students have to answer all questions and submit before you get their results, so that's a real downside.

@andrewpiper I'm still checking T occasionally but not posting there but, in response to your tweet re:active learning in a larger...

@andrewpiper I'm still checking T occasionally but not posting there but, in response to your tweet re:active learning in a larger lecture setting, I have a couple thoughts. Live polling is a nice strategy that can add a lot to a big classroom experience, especially if you use a tool like Mentimeter that quant and qual responses. Some also have a feature to let students post their question and up/downvote them. I found Mentimeter easy to learn but you need to pay to get some of the features.

A colleague of mine in psychology recently shared with my the idea of "the troubling trio", characterized by: (1) low statistical...

A colleague of mine in psychology recently shared with my the idea of "the troubling trio", characterized by: (1) low statistical power, (2) a surprising result, and (3) a p value only slightly less than 0.05. I hadn't heard this particular phrase before, so I'm sharing it. More people should know why the troubling trio is something to be troubled by, and should be on the lookout for this combination in their work. #datascience #stats #quant https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615616374 (by @dstephenlindsay)

There was an article a while back on the problems of trying to interpret a sophisticated model (maybe GAN, large language model, word...

There was an article a while back on the problems of trying to interpret a sophisticated model (maybe GAN, large language model, word embeddings, etc.) by feeding it things to predict on and then seeing how it behaves. I think the ideas was related to confirmation or selection bias. Anybody in #DH #datascience #machinelearning etc. remember an article like this?

Folks in #digitalhumanities and #dh are generally too distracted by the next shiny new thing (e.g., topic modeling, then word embeddings,...

Folks in #digitalhumanities and #dh are generally too distracted by the next shiny new thing (e.g., topic modeling, then word embeddings, then generative text models). We need a better ethos of deepening our knowledge of boring stuff (e.g., regression, natural experiments, reliability vs. validity), which can be radically transformative and informative if used well. DHers are not the only ones with this problem, but we've got it in spades.

I'm still curious if others have resources on extending the <doc> class in Spacy. Would you need to extend the <language>...

I'm still curious if others have resources on extending the <doc> class in Spacy. Would you need to extend the <language> class to instantiate <docs> differently? Or create objects that take a <doc> instance as an input? Please help if you can!

Has anyone on here written/worked on a library that sits on top of #spacy in #python? I'm imagining using the <doc> as a base...

Has anyone on here written/worked on a library that sits on top of #spacy in #python? I'm imagining using the <doc> as a base class for a specific type of text, then adding generators and/or attributes in addition to everything that comes with a Spacy <doc>. How to do this is not straightforward to me because of how <doc> interacts with the <language> & the <vocab>; as well as <doc> instances being instantiated via a <language> instance.

Learning to work with survey data is underrated in my corner of the data analytics / cultural analytics universe. In the spirit of...

Learning to work with survey data is underrated in my corner of the data analytics / cultural analytics universe. In the spirit of #opendata, I want to promote the General Social Survey (GSS), which is "one of the nation’s most rigorous and widely used sources of data on the attitudes, behaviors, and attributes of the American public" since 1972. https://gss.norc.org/

Happy Thanksgiving! I wanted to share an example of a Trello API script that saves me some time every semester. Provided a board name, a...

Happy Thanksgiving! I wanted to share an example of a Trello API script that saves me some time every semester. Provided a board name, a list name, and an overall project due date, this script automates adding a set of tasks, descriptions, and task due dates to Trello. The example is the tasks I use when setting my syllabus each semester, so due dates are generated by planning backward from the first day of classes. https://gist.github.com/mjlavin80/45130fc6e34ed0ddfba37774dc7dab19

Does anyone use a private Github repo to host files and then use server-side code to access those files and serve them up publicly? (Not...

Does anyone use a private Github repo to host files and then use server-side code to access those files and serve them up publicly? (Not full on Github Pages but analogous to a read-only DB but with Github for version control)

Before thanksgiving, my students wrapped up a computer vision project using CNNs to classify bird species (trying out various binary tasks...

Before thanksgiving, my students wrapped up a computer vision project using CNNs to classify bird species (trying out various binary tasks and building a basic ensemble). If you want to do something similar, check out the CUB 200 and NABirds datasets at https://data.caltech.edu/records/65de6-vp158 and https://dl.allaboutbirds.org/nabirds. The latter is more comprehensive but a much bigger download!