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 […]
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 phenomenological mediation of the screen can make it very hard to tell these different kinds of connector apart. In a recent post, the historian of belief Francis Young makes an intriguing argument which expands on this. Young argues that the reception of AI, across the public and the scholarly spheres, has shifted society towards […]
I set out to write my own Wretched-style game. My first attempt was based on the Franklin Expedition, and how the demise of those men is captured in Inuit oral tradition. I wrote my card prompts, I thought about how the game might end, I imagined what their colonial mindset when confronted with survival and […]
Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend HigherEd PodCon, the first conference devoted to podcasting across higher ed. Thanks to UPCEA, which sponsors my Intentional Teaching podcast, for sending me to Chicago for this very engaging conference! I thought I would share a few highlights from the conference here on the blog. See full […]
Scholarship on Machine Learning/AI and Close Reading culled by Scott Newstok from his Close Reading Archive. Scott Newstok shared this list with Alan Liu on May 18, 2025, with permission to share publicly. See full post.
Have you noticed the GIS button on our main page? It will lead you to gis.periegesis.org – our very own ArcGIS Hub Site. “An ArcGIS what?” or “a what Hub Site?”, I can almost hear some of you say! Let me clarify… Read full post here.
The Humanities contribute to society in many different ways; most of them are indirect and thus hard to measure. While there are good reasons for this state of affairs, at CREATE we are investigating whether we can quantify and qualify a specific form of impact: work on timely issues and open societal challenges. At this […]
In February 2011, Google launched its Google Art Project, now known as Google Arts and Culture (GA&C), with an objective to make culture more accessible. The platform (and the content on its app) has dramatically grown since then, and currently hosts approximately six million high-resolution images of artworks from approximately 2,500 museums and galleries in […]
Several months ago, some of my colleagues in Japan launched an online portal through which it is possible to explore from one’s own office the complex of the Mamluk sultan Qalawun (d. 1290), in Cairo (see: Qalawun VR Tour or the project’s site). In this post, I will present a brief overview of the portal […]
