Wednesday, 31st October 2018

Social Media as One or Many

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…

Thursday, 26th July 2018

NY Times Election Map from 2016: The Problem With Data Visualizations

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…

Tuesday, 14th November 2017

Ignoring Tech in the Ivory Tower?

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…

Monday, 16th October 2017

Digital Humanities Bust?

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…