Everywhere I look in the past week it seems like there’s death and sadness. The big obvious ones – innocent Jews slaughtered in Pittsburgh, a plane crash in Indonesia. Small ones – one of our… Continue reading…
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html The NY Times publishes a voting map of the US for the 2016 presidential election, showing how areas voted down to the polling station level. So, if you’re American you can see how… Continue reading…
From Nov. 14, 2017
Who is this Cathy O’Neil person and how is it possible that she is this clued out? “Where’s academia when it comes to helping us make sense of this?” Um,… Continue reading…
From Oct. 16, 2017
https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Digital-Humanities-Bust/241424 [behind a paywall, unfortunately]
While some useful points are made here, to quote the author, there’s a rookie mistake. DH has never been about more data, or data being mistaken… Continue reading…
