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Patterns in Roman Inscriptions 21 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
See how nicely the Latin clusters? I’ve played with topic modeling inscriptions before. I’ve now got a very effective script in R that runs the topic model and produces various kinds of output (I’ll ...
Topic Modeling #dh2013 with Paper Machines 9 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
I discovered the pdf with all of the abstracts from #dh2013 on a memory-stick-cum-swag this AM. What can I do with these? I know! I’ll topic model them using Paper Machines for Zotero. Iteration 1. ...
Historian’s Macroscope- how we’re organizing things 7 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
‘One of the sideshows was wrestling’ from National Library of Scotland on Flickr Commons; found by running this post through http://serendipomatic.org How do you coordinate something as massive as a ...
A quick run with Serendip-o-matic 3 Aug 2013 | 01:40 am
I just ran my announcement of our book through the #owot Serendip-o-matic serendipity engine. It took the text of my post, and extracted these key words: book, digital, writing, online, process, pro...
Announcing a live-writing project: the Historian’s Macroscope, an approach to big digital history 24 Jul 2013 | 08:32 pm
Robert Hook’s Microscope http://www.history-of-the-microscope.org I’ve just signed a book contract today with Imperial College Press; it’s winging its way to London as I type. I’m writing the book wi...
The George Garth Graham Undergraduate Digital History Research Fellowship 9 Jul 2013 | 11:53 pm
My grandfather, George Garth Graham, in the 1930s. At Carleton University, we have a number of essay awards for undergraduate history students. We do not have any awards geared towards writing histor...
Prescot Street as Topic Model, or, reading an excavation distantly 9 Jul 2013 | 11:25 pm
I tried a new tact in my quest to data mine archaeological records. Stuart Eve sent me the csv from the Prescot Street excavations, where each record was a unique context. I fed this into the vanilla ...
In which I topic model the entire PAS database by individual rows 4 Jul 2013 | 10:35 pm
Previously, I was trying to consider the geography of Roman Britain as a corpus of documents – individual geographic (modern) areas – where the records in the Portable Antiquities Scheme database form...
Topics as Word Clouds 26 Jun 2013 | 09:07 pm
Elijah Meeks and Mat Jockers both have used word clouds to visualize topics from topic models. Colour, orientation, relative placement of the words – all of these could be used to convey different dim...
Where Roman Roads and Topic Models Intersect 7 Jun 2013 | 10:25 pm
Previously, I ended up with a map of UK districts, coloured by the five groups that Gephi’s modularity routine suggested were present, in the network of districts to districts based on shared patterns...
