{"id":6872,"date":"2018-06-06T22:06:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T22:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2018-06-06T23:17:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T23:17:11","slug":"csdh-and-cgsa-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6872","title":{"rendered":"CSDH and CGSA 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year we had busy CSDH and CGSA meetings at Congress 2018 in Regina. My <a href=\"https:\/\/philosophi.ca\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CSDH-SCHN2018AndCGSA2018\">conference notes are here<\/a>. Some of the papers I was involved in include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conftool.net\/csdh-schn-2018\/sessions.php\">CSDH-SCHN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Code Notebooks: New Tools for Digital Humanists&#8221; was presented by Kynan Ly and made the case for notebook-style programming in the digital humanities.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Absorbing DiRT: Tool Discovery in the Digital Age&#8221; was presented by Kaitlyn Grant. The paper made the case for tool discovery registries and explained the merger of DiRT and <a href=\"http:\/\/tapor.ca\">TAPoR<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Splendid Isolation: Big Data, Correspondence Analysis and Visualization in France&#8221; was presented by me. The paper talked about FRANTEXT and correspondence analysis in France in the 1970s and 1980s. I made the case that the French were doing big data and text mining long before we were in the Anglophone world.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;TATR: Using Content Analysis to Study Twitter Data&#8221; was a poster presented by Kynan Ly, Robert Budac, Jason Bradshaw and Anthony Owino. It showed IPython notebooks for analyzing Twitter data.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Climate Change and Academia &#8211; Joint Panel with ESAC&#8221; was a panel I was on that focused on alternatives to flying for academics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1KIzX9j9d2xAUXxL9XBjP0AUmWl6irVbgxmx5LW6Ptbo\/edit#gid=0\">CGSA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Archiving an Untold History&#8221; was presented by Greg Whistance-Smith. He talked about our project to archive John Szczepaniak&#8217;s collection of interviews with Japanese game designers.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Using Salience to Study Twitter Corpora&#8221; was presented by Robert Budac who talked about different algorithms for finding salient words in a Twitter corpus.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Political Mobilization in the GG Community&#8221; was presented by ZP who talked about a study of a Twitter corpus that looked at the politics of the community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, a PhD student I&#8217;m supervising,\u00a0Sonja Sapach, won the CSDH-SCHN (Canadian Society for Digital Humanities)\u00a0Ian Lancashire Award for Graduate Student Promise at\u00a0CSDHSCHN18 at Congress. The Award &#8220;recognizes an outstanding presentation at our annual conference of original research in DH by a graduate student.\u201d She won the award for a paper on &#8220;Tagging my Tears and Fears: Text-Mining the Autoethnography.\u201d She is completing an interdisciplinary PhD in Sociology and Digital Humanities. Bravo Sonja!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year we had busy CSDH and CGSA meetings at Congress 2018 in Regina. My conference notes are here. Some of the papers I was involved in include: CSDH-SCHN: &#8220;Code Notebooks: New Tools for Digital Humanists&#8221; was presented by Kynan Ly and made the case for notebook-style programming in the digital humanities. &#8220;Absorbing DiRT: Tool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSDH and CGSA 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,48,5,17,51,27,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-conference","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-humanities-computing","category-japan","category-media-and-news","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6875,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions\/6875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}