In the Narrative Statistics series of posts, I’m exploring different ways to characterize fiction using statistics. I’m recovering from a flu or cold as well as a nasty cough that followed, so instead of delving into deep math, I want to review what I see as the role of statistics, at least for this series.

…The point here, though, is not to focus on individual technical solutions but to emphasize the necessity for creators of network visualizations to open a dialogue about standards and practices as well as expectations of visual literacy of their audience. As the tools to represent and manipulate networks become more common, the level of fluency with network representation has begun to highlight the low level of visual literacy among typical observers who try to “read” such representations.

QTIP is a free digital image processing application. It was developed by Multimodal Analysis Lab and National University of Singapore) and Software Studies Initiative at University of California, San Diego. Download it from software page of our lab blog. Use it to process your image collection and then visualize the collection with our free ImagePlot tool.

The topic of digital humanities (DH) and rhetoric/computers and writing has generated considerable research activity in the last three years  as evidenced by the number of DH panels at the 2011 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Atlanta, a 2011 DH workshop at the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute in Boulder, anda town hall meeting on…

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The Department of English Literature and Writing at Marylhurst University announces a full-time faculty position in our new English and Digital Humanities online degree program. We invite applicants with expertise in digital humanities and experience teaching in online and/or hybrid environments. Along with teaching in both the online and on-campus programs, the successful candidate will…

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The Devonshire Manuscript: A Digital Social Edition « Early Modern Online Bibliography. Readers are invited to participate in a promising and methodically thought-through experiment in social editing. The University of Victoria’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab‘s Devonshire MS Editorial Group invites contributions to a new project involving collaborative knowledge curation.  The project aims at attributing contributions…

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H-Net Job Guide. The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive,seeks to hire a Program Coordinator. The Program Coordinator will be responsible for promoting, coordinating, and executing multiple year-round and summer educational programs. The program coordinator must be able to operate in a fast-past, deadline-driven environment, have an extensive background in program…

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On blogging in the Digital Humanities | Michael Ullyot. Blogging in the social, pure, and applied sciences is a common enough practice that two members of the London School of Economics’ Public Policy Group said today that it is “one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now” — namely,…

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CDRH News & Events. Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing publishes first issue We are delighted to announce the debut of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing, now online at scholarlyediting.org. Published for over 30 years as a print publication titled Documentary Editing, Scholarly Editing continues to…

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