When I was initially thinking about my final project, I wanted to do something outside of the traditional paper or data project format. I wasn’t completely satisfied with my Finnegans Wake data experimentation project, but I can always go back to that another time. I was very curious about the grant write-up option because it may […]

The sound of one hand clapping is fantastic for the originator: it requires a single point of origin, and a lack of interaction with the other hand. However, the sound of one hand clapping doesn’t make ends meet when you weigh artistic drive versus business need. One of the key takeaways from Erin Kissane’s The […]

Micki Kaufman, former class visitor and creator of Quantifying Kissinger recently hosted a data visualization workshop on October 31st where she not only showed how to set projects up in Gephi and Tableau, but also showed the power of smaller script GUIs for text analysis like AntConc and Mallet. Her initial project dealt with thousands of […]

In Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s final section, she tackles the “unstable economic model” that university publishing operates under (155). The university press unfortunately is in a strange state of limbo where they operate for the university and are subsidized by the university, but also serve a purpose outside the university. She’s aware that this section of hers […]