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Stable Random Projection

I have a new article on dimensionality reduction on massive digital libraries this month. Because it’s a technique with …

New Site

New article in the Atlantic

Feature Reduction on the Underwood-Sellars corpus

This is some real inside baseball; I think only two or three people will be interested in this post. But I’m hoping to get one of them …

Buying a computer for digital humanities work

I’ve gotten a couple e-mails this week from people asking advice about what sort of computers they should buy for digital humanities …

Commodius vici of recirculation: the real problem with Syuzhet

Practically everyone in Digital Humanities has been posting increasingly epistemological reflections on Matt Jockers’ Syuzhet package …

Rate My Professor

Just some quick FAQs on myprofessor evaluations visualization: adding new ones to the front, so start with 1 if you want the important …

The Bookworm-Mallet extension

I promised Matt Jockers I’d put together a slightly longer explanation of the weird constraints I’ve imposed on myself for topic models …

Building outlines and slides from Markdown lectures with Pandoc

Just a quick follow-up to my post from last month on using Markdown for writing lectures. The github repository for implementing this …