As I may have mentioned, I have been working to extract a sound from the old printouts. I spent some time using OpenCV to convert some low quality images into grey scale so that I could use Tesseract on them. It did need hand correction – but I think I can see some ways of […]
I have gone back to work on the Eric Sunderland archive. I also sent in a poster abstract to DMRN + 20 (Digital Music Research Network) with initial comments. It will become part of a talk to be given next year. A focus for this trip was to take some more photos of the printouts […]
A while ago, I was chatting to Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru about converting data. Jonathan was interested in tiny tools that I understood as a software that does one or a very few things and I was thinking about lightweight ways of converting data from Zeeschuimer into a CSV file for students. There are […]
Deadlines are finally over. Well for a bit. Two fellowships have been submitted and the one thing that links them is the challenge of communicating technical aspects of research. As a tldr; I began to really appreciate trying to find a narrative for technical research. One focussed on community and the second on a research […]
Adel Douad and Devdatt Dubhashi’s article on hybrid models in Statistical Modeling is an idea that is intriguing me at the moment as I restart things. One for the back burner, but linking to it for future research.
A line in Beatrice Forman’s article, The soothing, slightly sinister world of productivity hacks, jumped out at me. While discussing various ways of being productive, she nods to a (now deleted) post to replace reading books and articles with Instagram and notes versions, rather than engaging with the 2-300 pages of a book. I had […]
I was recently asked to give a talk on Introducing Python for the Reproducible, Interpretable, Open, Transparent Science club (RIOTS). This gave me a chance to go back to an earlier lecture given at the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School and to refresh the material. I do like giving these talks with a live example […]
Peter Forberg’s paper, Critical Design as Theory, Experiment, and Data: A Sociologically-Informed Approach to Visualizing Networks of Loss, on Digital Humanities Quarterly is an intriguing read that I will come back to in the near future as I do some reading catch up. It develops David Berry and Anders Fagerjord’s call for a Critical Digital […]
Just catching up with some reading as a bit of a break from other things and saw this article on Ethical Issues and Experimental Humanities on the Talking Humanities blog. Linking to it as a post it for later but it links to a few things that I have been thinking about.
A few years ago, Strava visualised the GPS co-ordinates in their data and displayed the locations of secret bases. A change of privacy settings later and, apparently, all was secret again. The Guardian has just run a story on using segments and GPS locations to show individuals within the bases through re-purposing the segment function. […]
