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Writing Craft Archives - Maia Chance
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The Discreet Retrieval Agency. Archive for Writing Craft category. Review Roundup: JOY TO THE WORLDS. On November 19, 2015. This week I’m restructuring the second half of a plot that I thought was DONE. It’s exhilarating, since. Is possible. It’s frustrating for the exact same reason. The situation looks like this:. So I was thrilled to take a break from all those little rippy bits of paper and read some of the reviews that have rolled in for my upcoming release. Joy to the Worlds. Oy to the Worlds.
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Sapping Attention: Biblio bizarre: who publishes in Google Books
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Digital Humanities: Using tools from the 1990s to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America. Thursday, April 3, 2014. Biblio bizarre: who publishes in Google Books. Here's a little irony I've been meaning to post. Large scale book digitization makes tools like Ngrams possible; but it also makes tools like Ngrams obsolete for the future. It changes what a "book" is in ways that makes the selection criteria for Ngrams—if it made it into print, it must have some. If by ‘produce' you m...
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Sapping Attention: Gender and the long-term decline in humanities enrollments
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Digital Humanities: Using tools from the 1990s to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Gender and the long-term decline in humanities enrollments. A quick addendum to my post on long-term enrollment trends in the humanities. This topic seems to have legs, and I have lots more numbers sitting around I find useful, but they've got to wait for now). That the humanities " commited suicide. I don't want to put off any earnest 19-year-olds out there: but one mig...
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The Invention & Dissemination of the Transparent GIF: Traces in Web Archives | Trevor Owens
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User Centered Digital History. Review: Preserving Complex Digital Objects. Becoming Digital Public Historians →. The Invention & Dissemination of the Transparent GIF: Traces in Web Archives. April 4, 2015. Tiny transparent image files have played a significant role in the history of the Web. Digital folklorist, Olia Lina has done some great work exploring the presence of spacer GIFs in the Geocities web archive and on how those GIFs persisted in some cases beyond the deletion of geocities. Hashes for all...
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bmschmidt (Benjamin Schmidt) · GitHub
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Boston, MA / New York City. Oct 7, 2011. Trail layout for D3. An R package for creating and exploring word2vec and other word embedding models. Dynamically updatable color bars for use with d3.js. Create a Healy-style CV in latex without having to tweak latex files. Convert a single markdown file into lectures, slides, and outlines. 184 contributions in the last year. Summary of pull requests, issues opened, and commits. Learn how we count contributions. Bmschmidt has no activity during this period.
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Sapping Attention: Crisis in the humanities, or just women in the workplace?
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Digital Humanities: Using tools from the 1990s to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Crisis in the humanities, or just women in the workplace? OK: one last post about enrollments, since the statistic that humanities degrees have dropped in half since 1970 is all over the news the last two weeks. This is going to be a bit of a data dump: but there's a shortage of data on the topic out there, so forgive me. Click to view in a readable size. OK Fast-forward...
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Sapping Attention: Administrative layers
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Digital Humanities: Using tools from the 1990s to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America. Thursday, December 18, 2014. Sometimes it takes time to make a data visualization, and sometimes they just fall out of the data practically by accident. Probably the most viewed thing I've ever made, of shipping lines as spaghetti strings. The most tinkered with are central Indiana, going back to various contested claims in the colonial period; the area around Denver; and most of Montana, which w...
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