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Grabbing data from Open Context
This morning, on Twitter, there was a conversation about site diaries and the possibilities of topic modeling for extracting insight from them. Open Context has 2618 diaries – here’s one of them. Eric,...
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Extracting Places with Python
Ok, a quick note to remind myself – I was interested in learning how to use this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/geograpy/0.3.7 Installation was a bit complicated; lots of dependencies. The following...
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If I could read your mind – Sonifying John Adams’ Diary
Maybe the question isn’t one of reading someone’s thoughts, but rather, listening to the overall pattern of topics within them. Topic modeling does some rather magical things. It imposes sense (it...
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gnōthi seauton, or, mine your own tweets
Sometimes, one of the best ways to understand a method is to run it on data that you know very well indeed. In which case, the ability to request one’s twitter archive and to feed it into R is quite...
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Reactions to Battlefield Recovery episode 1
Battlefield Recovery, an execrable show that turns the looting of war dead into ‘entertainment’, was shown on Saturday on Channel 5 in the UK. I won’t dignify it by linking to it; instead see this...
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On Punctuation
Posters of various literary works by Nicholas Rougeux – as represented by the punctuation therein- have been doing the rounds lately. They’re lovely; in the absence of words we intuit something of the...
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The Robotic Edward Gibbon
Continuing on from yesterday’s post and the suggestion of Steve Leahy: @electricarchaeo Feed it the complete text of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall…": https://t.co/XgJ7yhiYUL & let it (re)write...
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Open Context & Carleton Prize for Archaeological Visualization
Increasingly, archaeology data are being made available openly on the web. But what do these data show? How can we interrogate them? How can we visualize them? How can we re-use data visualizations?...
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Open Context & Carleton University Prize for Archaeological Visualization:...
Heaven knows I’m no designer. But I’m fond of these two efforts. Share widely! See Further with Open Context
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ODATE: Open Digital Archaeology Textbook Environment (original proposal)
“Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least...
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