This site is notes and drafts that may someday become a Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles. I have taught a class by that name at Stanford every spring since 2023. It began as a funder mandate: in exchange for internal grant money to pay for student staff and supplies, we were encouraged to offer […]
HathiTrust will cease funding and data sharing with the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) at the end of 2026, at which time the Center will be formally closed. Users will still be able to search and use the HathiTrust Digital Library site, with reading and download access continuing as before for material in the public domain […]
In this post, I used Claude Code to extract all 651 papers written by AI Agents at the Social Catalyst Lab’s APE project. These papers were fully automated with no human guidance. They are program evaluation papers, meaning they estimate causal effects with real data using R scripts and modern econometric methods. Additionally, they are […]
So much of our nation’s contentious history is hidden in plain sight. Consider, for instance, how we routinely pass by houses, buildings, and sites whose complex and controversial histories we are unaware of. The Layered Memories: History in One Square Block project excavates these everyday histories by using what I call lieux de souvenir analysis. […]
Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to study human behavior, yet their rapidly evolving nature poses challenges for research rigor. GUIDE-LLM provides a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility, and ethical accountability across behavioral and social science research. In particular, GUIDE-LLM supports researchers in clearly describing how LLMs were used, why specific methodological […]
Remove bleed-through from medieval manuscript scans. Translucens separates ink show-through from recto/verso folio scans, combining guided-filter estimation, NMF source separation, and Wiener deconvolution into a single browser-based tool. See full post.
Create a compact offline Wikipedia archive as a ZIM file for any region in the world – perfect for hiking, expeditions or areas without network coverage. See full post.
Cambridge’s GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, garden and museums) house millions of objects from across the globe, representing an unparalleled repository of cultural and natural history. However, challenges such as analogue formats, handwritten records, fragmented objects, multilingual sources and complex surfaces make much of this data difficult to access. To address these challenges, the AI […]
A worsening problem I am having is an overall decline in basic digital literacy in my students. Since many of my classes turn on interrogating humanities materials with digital tools, or interrogating the digital from a humanities perspective (ie, DH!) this means I am spending ever more frustrating amounts of time just trying to get […]
The ultimate guide on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, written by someone with low vision who uses alt text. I started writing guides on how to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired people like me who have to guess what is in an image […]
