I began the month intending to write 50,000 words. I got a bit past 5,000 and then got sidetracked by another project. I shouldn’t be surprised. This is how it’s been in the past. From the title, you might guess that the distraction was a game, and you’d be right. Read More ...
Archive for the ‘Digital Humanities’ Category
Every November, I mean to buckle down and write 50,000 words. Every November, something comes up that keeps me from doing it. Last year, I taught an introductory course to creative writing at Texas A&M University. The year before, I probably got too busy with work. This year, I’m going Read More ...
Last week, we explored the Poisson distribution as a possible distribution of sentence lengths. If you look at the figure for Hunter Crackdown, the Poisson seems reasonable, but it breaks down when looking at other works. In this post, I’d like to go back and try to derive a Read More ...
Thursdays are my research days. I have a couple things cooking away that I’m not quite ready to write about yet, but I want to take a little time today to explore something that I plan on doing a lot more once my cooking is done. I’m interested in studying Read More ...
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is in a week. I’ll be teaching a course on data discovery, management, and presentation using a platform I’ve been developing for the last couple years. This will be the first time other people will try to use the platform to build a project. Read More ...
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) with the same title. I’ve linked to the video here so you can see the slides along with my monotone voice. In this talk, I use imagery and music along with Read More ...
I’m working through some ideas on how to move the Utukku/Fabulator expression language more into a descriptive, functional style. I want to be able to have the programming be exposed as an editorial statement showing how certain calculations are done or inferences are drawn. The computer’s interpretation of the data Read More ...
During the first week of March, a group of humanities scholars and developers gathered in the bowels of the McKeldin library on the University of Maryland campus. You can see the website that talks about the results on the MITH website. We held Corpora Camp to test some ideas on distributed humanities computing that Read More ...
I just pushed Fabulator 0.0.12 and Radiant Fabulator Extension 0.0.9 to RubyGems. The first adds the template element to libraries. The latter adds a page and page-part action for creating pages in Radiant. This will eventually enable editing of existing pages, but for now it’s aimed at creating new ones. Read More ...
Templates mean a lot of things. This time, it’s building up strings within the Fabulator engine instead of building strings in the client presentation. I’ve not checked them into Github yet, but I’ve coded a fifth type of function definition in Fabulator libraries: the template type. They work like this: