My blog on February 2, about the Syuzhet package I developed for R (now available on CRAN), generated some nice press that I was not expecting: Motherboard, then The Paris Review, and several R blogs (Revolutions, R-Bloggers, inside-R) all featured the work. The press was nice, but I was not at all prepared for the focus to be ...
Serious games for the serious work of history?
‘The culture at large’ as Katie Salen and Eric Zimmermann note ‘does not yet see games as a noble, or even particularly useful endeavour.’ Since those words were written in May 2003, there has been a marked transformation in the esteem with which ...
infrastructure |ˈɪnfrəstrʌktʃə| (noun) – the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. – New Oxford American Dictionary
Everything we have gained by opening content and data will be under threat if we allow the enclosure of scholarly ...
In his classic study Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam argues that we have lost our connection to friends, family, neighbors, and our democratic structures. He warns that our "social capital" has plummted, leaving us emotionally and socially impoverished. We're working harder, going to more meetings, but spending less time iwth ...
These are the slides and notes from the lightning talk I gave at the CAA 2015 session "Doing Digital Art History: Reflections on the Field", an overview of the work done at the 2014 summer institutes sponsored by the Kress and Getty Foundations.
See the underlying data and processing code here.
This ...
