{"id":3784,"date":"2011-07-13T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2011-07-13T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T23:05:05","slug":"digging-into-data-day-2-making-tools-and-using-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3784","title":{"rendered":"Digging Into Data, Day 2: Making Tools and Using Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered (thanks to the Digging Into Data site) that the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog has a nice story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diggingintodata.org\/tabid\/184\/Default.aspx\">Digging Into Data Challenge Conference (2011)<\/a> that talks about the Criminal Intent project I am on. See <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/digging-into-data-day-2-making-tools-and-using-them\/31704\">Digging Into Data, Day 2: Making Tools and Using Them<\/a>. The article nicely summarizes Steve Ramsay who was our respondent to the effect that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Ramsay\u2019s talk celebrated how this kind of Big Data work can enhance  rather than diminish the humanities\u2019 traditional engagement with human  experience. \u201cThe Old Bailey, like the Naked City, has eight million  stories.  Accessing those stories involves understanding trial length,  numbers of  instances of poisoning, and rates of bigamy,\u201d he said in his  response. \u201cBut being stories, they  find their more salient expression  in the weightier motifs of the human  condition: justice, revenge,  dishonor, loss, trial. This is what the  humanities are about. This is  the only reason for an historian to fire  up Mathematica or for a  student trained in French literature to get into  Java.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is by Jennifer Howard and was published June 12, 2011. This nicely contrasts with the Nature article on the event that focused on the culturnomics keynote by Erez Lieberman-Aiden &amp; JB Michel from Harvard rather than the serious work of digging into data. You can see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3697\">earlier post on this conference (with a link to my conference report) here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered (thanks to the Digging Into Data site) that the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog has a nice story on the Digging Into Data Challenge Conference (2011) that talks about the Criminal Intent project I am on. See Digging Into Data, Day 2: Making Tools and Using Them. The article nicely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digging Into Data, Day 2: Making Tools and Using Them<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,37,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-high-performance-computing","category-humanities-computing","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}