“Shall These Things Live?” Evaluating the Humanities in Newspapers during the Great Depression
During our summer research camp, and as part of our “Historical Humanities” team, I began scanning ProQuest databases and the digital collections […]
Research blog post type: Research Post
Preliminary Notes on Conceptual Issues Affecting Interpretation of Topic Models
Any process of interpretation of textual data relates, to some extent, to the fundamental interplay between observable features belonging to the object […]
Conceptual Assumptions in WE1S Topic Modeling
In the Philosophy of Methods research group, we hoped this summer to make transparent the implicit assumptions of WE1S’s methods and consider […]
Media Representation and Diverse Populations
This summer, the members of the Diverse populations research team at CSUN set out to join the effort to explore how diverse groups […]
Advocacy and Meaningful Content Creation
The first sentence on the WE1S project’s About page is: “The 4humanities WhatEvery1Says project (WE1S) uses digital humanities methods to study public […]
The Global Humanities and the “Crisis” Therein
Although the precise nature, reasons, and manifestations of the malady have been the occasion of nearly endless debate, the fact that the […]
Scoping Representativeness
During the academic year 2017-18, the WE1S C-Hackers (short for “Corpus Research and Design Group”) at UC Santa Barbara and U Miami […]
Thoughts on Diversity in the Archive
Since last summer, I have served as a scoping and collection domain expert for what we are now referring to as “diverse […]
Word Embeddings for Restricted Access Corpora
Abstract Given the problem of a restricted access corpus where full texts cannot be stored locally, we propose to make use of […]
Announcing the WE1S Research Blog
The WE1S Summer Research Camp is now well under way. After an initial week of orientation, team members at UC Santa Barbara […]
