I actually suspect that the topics identified by [latent Dirichlet allocation] probably always have the character of “discourses.” —Ted Underwood, “What kinds of ‘topics’ does topic modeling actually produce?” The tools that enable historians to carry out this work of analysis are partly inherited and partly of their own making […]. These tools have enabled Read More…
Topic Modeling Experiments with some Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
I’m re-posting a short write-up of a weekly practicum assignment from Alan Liu‘s Introduction to Digital Humanities graduate seminar in fall 2014 tonight so that I can cite it as an example from another blog post. There have been some (very small) modifications; the original write-up, from 3 November 2014, is currently available here for Read More…
Some Thoughts on the Politics of Coding
A problem: some preliminary remarks I’ve been thinking tonight about Joris van Zundert’s post in Humanist 28.1, in which he asks whether (and how much) humanities-oriented academia values the work of software builders. Van Zundert’s post responds to a previous question by list moderator Willard McCarty about how the increasing availability of build-it-yourself coding frameworks Read More…
An automated sentiment analysis of Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy”
Alas. My Internet connection went out suddenly last night, leaving me without the ability to complete an assignment at the last minute.* Since the submission window for the assignment has now closed on the course website, I’m posting this here, both because the results are a bit interesting and as a gesture of good faith Read More…
Testing
Now that the blog is installed on my own server, can I post to it?