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Author: Ruvarashe Masocha

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Mapping patterns and causes for labor migration in Southern Africa

We live in communities that are increasingly becoming intersected and globalized.  There is a lot of mixing in terms of race, religion, ideologies, languages, ethnicity, and many other aspects. The development of such an intersection has historically been traced from systems of migration and capitalist expansion (1). In many discussions of world development, Africa is excluded yet major forms of migration and population […]

Resources

Resource: Quick Labels with Python’s f-string

Sometimes I need a list of titles or labels for a project on which I am working. E.g., I am working with a toy dataset and I’ve created a 10 x 10 array and I want to give the rows and columns headers so I can try slicing and dicing. I prefer human-readable/thinkable names for […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Dr Peniel Joseph – The Sword and the Shield

The Not Even Past Conversations Series was born out of the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic.  It takes the form of a long interview held informally (usually at home) over Zoom with leading scholars and teachers at the University of Texas at Austin and beyond. The first in the series is a conversation with […]

Announcements, News

Opportunity: Join the ADHO Executive Board and Committees

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks nominations for committed individuals who would like to actively help further DH in all its breadth and diversity on a global scale for the following positions: ADHO Executive Board Secretary ADHO Admissions Committee Chair ADHO Multilingualism/Multiculturalism Committee (MLMC) Chair Read full post here.  

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Researcher Position

We’re hiring! The AAI/Open Context invites applications for two Postdoctoral Researcher positions in our new Data Literacy Program: Position 1: Postdoctoral Researcher (Data Interpretation and Public Engagement)This is a remote position. Full time (40 hours/week).  Application review will begin July 15, 2020 and will continue until filled. The Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI/Open Context) is a […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Virtual DH2020 Registration Now Open

Registration for the virtual DH2020 conference is now open! Presenters and participants can register via the DH2020 ConfTool. Once registered, you will need to sign up for a Humanities Commons account and request access to the DH2020 Humanities Commons group. Group access will be granted beginning on 10 July. More information about how to register […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: How predictable is fiction?

.entry-header This blog post is loosely connected to a talk I’m giving (virtually) at the Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events at the ACL. It’s an informal talk, exploring some of the challenges and opportunities we encounter when we take the impressive sentence-level tools of contemporary NLP and try to use them to produce […]

CFPs & Conferences

CFPapers: Virtual Workshop Twin Talks

This workshop is the third in a series where the main objective is to get a better understanding of the dynamics on the Digital Humanities work floor where humanities scholars and digital experts meet and work in tandem to solve humanities research questions. The best way to do this seems to be to give both […]

Job Announcements

Job: Digital Library Application Programmer

As a member of the Library Technology Services Department, Digital Development Unit, the Digital Library Application Programmer performs duties related to the creation and support of software applications for the Libraries’ Digital Support Services Department and develops applications and services with an emphasis on the digital library system. Read full post here.

By: Laurie
Resources

Resource: A New Library of Congress Collection

Friends, data wranglers, lend me your ears; The Library of Congress’ Selected Datasets Collection is now live! You can now download datasets of the Simple English Wikipedia, the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, sports economic data, half a million emails from Enron, and urban soil lead abatement from this online collection. This initial set of […]