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Kindred Britain: A sign of our times

Today marks the public release of Kindred Britain, a new interactive scholarly work that explores the role of family in British culture. Integrating geospatial, temporal, and network information visua...

Elijah Meeks · August 26, 2013

Text Analysis IN the Library, FOR the Library

For those of you who don't know, I'm still fairly new to Stanford (as well as being new to what I lovingly refer to as "library land"). When I initially started my PhD in English, specializi...

Jacqueline Hettel · August 23, 2013

Women in Programming (or the Lack Thereof)

When I first read Dave Winer’s blog post about the lack of women in programming, I braced myself. He suggests that women are not “very patient,” and that this explains why they are not very present in...

Emma Honour Mae... · August 22, 2013

Women in CS (and the Digital Humanities)

According to Dave Winer’s blog post on his website a few days ago, women are a minority in programming because they lack certain qualities – namely patience – that allow them to succeed in the profess...

Hannah Rose Abalos · August 21, 2013

On Digital Humanities and Surveillance

Over at my blog, I just posted a piece about the role digital humanists should play in discussions of government surveillance. Some key questions: Is there a chilling effect already in place? Are we a...

Mike Widner · August 20, 2013

Discovering Regions with ORBIS v2

A simple demonstration of the kind of higher-level analysis possible with the new cartograms and clustering in the v2 version of ORBIS. This is accomplished entirely within the browser (except for tu...

Elijah Meeks · August 19, 2013