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Why are such terrible things written about DH? Kirsch v. Kirschenbaum

Last week I read one of the latest and loudest salvos in a sad and very silly war on the digital humanities: Adam Kirsch, in The New Republic, chose to put his pugnacious piece out under not one, but...

Glen Worthey · May 7, 2014

Digital Humanities and Data Science

I'm proud to announce that Stanford University Library will be bringing on Scott Weingart as a data scientist to help support digital humanities scholarship here at Stanford. Scott is well-known in th...

Elijah Meeks · May 5, 2014

Spreadsheets are Information Visualization

Like most valuable human experiences, this all started on Twitter, when I used a tired meme to deliver what I thought would be considered radical to folks not involved with information visualization b...

Elijah Meeks · April 28, 2014

Neotopology

This is part of a talk I gave at #txdhc. It leaves out "principles of interloping in network science" which I'll try to put in a later post. When I was invited to give a talk at The Texas Di...

Elijah Meeks · April 14, 2014

The Day of DH

Today is the Day of DH, when digital humanities practitioners try to document what a "typical day" looks like in their engagement with digital humanities. There is an official site that host...

Elijah Meeks · April 8, 2014

What Makes a Minard?

The updated ORBIS is rapidly approaching completion, and with its finishing touches comes the need to describe some of the things that it does. Most of its new functionality, such as the routes or car...

Elijah Meeks · March 26, 2014