Twittering from the Chicago Digital Humanities Conference

The Digital Humanities and Computer Science conference is just wrapping up: two days of fairly deep geekery around the programming of text-mining bots, followed by one mind-blowing day of investigations into the use of visualization to discern new forms of cultural change.

From the very small text-search to the very large collaborative overview, these are forces that could revolutionize the practice of history.

My twitter stream from the last three days skims over plenty, but gives a quick overview of some high points, including some of the tools that could be immediately plugged in to any old cultural studies problem on your mind! Offered here for your geeking out pleasure, a quick three days of tweets:

visualized word tree for "i am married" in personals ads: http://tinyurl.com/2brdao about 2 hours ago from twitterrific


"you are like a..." word tree from Jane eyre: http://tinyurl.com/6ekhax about 2 hours ago from twitterrific


mark wattenberg visualizes Richardson's novel Pamela (1740): http://tinyurl.com/676835 about 2 hours ago from twitterrific


hearing about mark wattenberg's big visualizations of culture: for instance, color in the english language http://tinyurl.com/67zrnz about 2 hours ago from twitterrific


live blog of panel that includes paul conway's stuff on distorted photos: http://tinyurl.com/5ee8j7 about 2 hours ago from twitterrific


listening to really disturbing run down of the way that historical photographs are regularly altered for the web -- so much mangled history about 3 hours ago from twitterrific


listening to Scott Branting describe the GIS mapping of an iron-age city in Turkey, speculating about patterns in city form about 4 hours ago from twitterrific


live coverage of #dhcs2008: http://tinyurl.com/6lfr4k 7:46 AM yesterday from twitterrific


#dhcs pasenek sculley presenting "a study of parody" - lit crit meets machine learning! 7:25 AM yesterday from twitterrific


#dhcs possibilities for new kinds of text mining here, but everything I'm hearing about today looks like 5 yrs from big collaborative use 1:18 PM Nov 1st from twitterrific


thick possibilities for new kinds of text mining here, but everything I'm hearing about today looks like 5 yrs from big collaborative use 1:17 PM Nov 1st from twitterrific


meandre promises synthesized, advanced text search... 12:26 PM Nov 1st from twitterrific


presentation about how SEASR aggregates analysis from a dozen different scholarly search tools: http://seasr.org/ 12:16 PM Nov 1st from twitterrific


machine-extrapolated philologic relationships for the whole of the eighteenth century corpus online!!! 11:07 AM Nov 1st from twitterrific


at the Digital Humanities conference at Chicago, geeking out over Philologic: http://philologic.northwestern.edu 11:06 AM Nov 1st from twitterrific