For some time, I’ve been gathering tools and activities to help me [introduce students to the mechanics of machine learning with neural nets]. (Things come and go so fast on the web that I have to do it every year!) It’s always a challenge to find high-quality tools, especially since they’re buried in layers and […]
The event ‘Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy in a Polycrisis Context’ was successfully held on 6th March 2025 in Imo State, bringing together child rights, teachers, advocates, policymakers, data analysts, church leaders and community leaders. The event which started at 10am focused on how open data can drive evidence-based advocacy for vulnerable children facing […]
Editors’ Summary: This post uses data visualizations to analyze the way that musical motifs are used by musicals to further the storytelling. For the purpose of the study, the author defines motifs as melodic motifs that are sung. She demonstrates how musicals rely on motifs to create structure and meaning , especially when there is […]
Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower emerges from this critical juncture in the humanities, where the decline in tenure-track positions and the rise of part-time and contingent roles necessitate explorations of the extensive career paths that are both meaningful and viable for DH scholars. Synthesizing recent advice-oriented monographs such as Katina Rogers’s Putting […]
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive will share the results of its recently completed database migration project. Vanderbilt’s database of one million tv news stories and half-a-million commercial breaks, 1968 to present, has undergone several transformations over the decades. Starting as a print catalog in the 1970s, then debuting as an early website in the mid-1990s, […]
Digital environments have generated a vast ecosystem of literary and para-literary production, including fan fiction communities, transmedia projects, Alternate Reality Games, Wiki-based Storyworlds, and countless hybrid forms that challenge older taxonomies. At the same time, social platforms such as Reddit, TikTok, Substack, and Wattpad have become powerful engines for the creation and circulation of American […]
Editors’ Summary: Shawn Graham’s post describes an exploratory text analysis project using agentic coding and newspapers. He used Claude to help determine whether his local paper reported on the Jack the Ripper murders. The most difficult part of the entire process was the OCR of the newspapers, and he discusses the difficulties he encountered with […]
Editors’ Summary: In this post, Zach Butler highlights features of Marimo Notebooks, and demonstrates how Marimo is an improvement over Jupyter Notebooks. He points out how difficult Jupyter notebooks are to track by git, making version control and collaboration difficult. Unlike Jupyter notebooks, Marimo notebooks are actual Python files. The interface of the notebook opens […]
We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers (abstracts) for the International Spatial Humanities 26 (SH26) Conference, which will be hosted at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, 23-25th September 2026. SH26 international conference is guided by the theme “Artificial Intelligence and Geotechnologies for Human Experiences”. We welcome submissions on all aspects of […]
Editors’ Summary: This paper uses geocoding to study 19th century Russian literature. The authors extracted location data using NER to quantitatively measure the literary “transition from romanticism to realism.” This paper is a helpful reference for readers who want to combine quantitative methods with historical periodization. See full post.
