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For people new to text analysis, it can be hard to wrap your head around the gap between what's completely obvious to you as a human and what's easily detectible by a computer. Especially when working with humanities data... read more

This week Brandon Walsh finished up his summer of blogging [https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/blogging-summer-2023-in-review/], a series I very much enjoyed following along with. It was a refreshing reminder that a blog post doesn't need to be a whole production... read more

This is the first time I've typed it: my high school Russian (and choir, and theater, but most of all Russian) teacher, Valerie Navarro, has died. There's a long list of high school friends and classmates I need to reach out to... read more

The "DH origin story" has become a genre, as I'm reminded by Brandon Walsh's recent Scholars Lab post on his [https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/origin-story/]. I've written mine too, including a couple takes on coding at the Data-Sitters Club [https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc12.html#id2] at the Data-Sitters Club... read more

I woke up this morning to the news that it's Amanda Visconti and Brandon Walsh's 6-year anniversary at the Scholars' Lab [https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/]. Were I closer to UVA, I'd have spent lunchtime hunting down whatever local variety of celebratory snack is the custom... read more

It's been about a month since the deal closed on Twitter, and a sizable portion of the DH community that I count on for collaboration and community began trying out Mastodon. Between travel and a holiday week... read more

*CW: Doubts, cancer, grief, community, Twitter.* I've been on Mastodon for 3 weeks now, and this week I was starting to feel at loose ends with it all. I have the [list of close to 400 DH folks](https://tinyurl.com/dhmastodon) (please add yourself using the link at the top if you haven't!) I'm following nearly 900 people across a range of fields and hobbies that interest me... read more

I've been on Mastodon for two weeks (here's last week's musings [/blog/2022/11/06/a-week-with-mastodon/]), and the list of digital humanities people on Mastodon [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Ak4VHCnr_4Stkzkz-_RhOgX-jCJMt0oq0GN9XXDaKo/edit#gid=229844055] that I created a week ago has over 330 people... read more

I joined Mastodon in late April 2022, when talk of a Musk acquisition of Twitter got serious and people started talking about finding other platforms. This news was emphatically not what I needed at that moment -- I was two months into SUCHO [https://sucho.org] and had my hands full... read more

Today is my mother's birthday. The internet told me; I haven't kept track for decades. I went looking for the date after reading a beautiful post by Ruth Kitchin Tillman about calculating when she'd reached half her mother's total years [https://ruthtillman.com/post/2018-04-22/]... read more