Source: GSU Creative Media Industries Institute
URL: Updates–February 2, 2017
Each week, an update on work in the Creative Media Industries Institute is circulated to GSU faculty, staff, and graduate students whose work connects (intellectually, creatively, or administratively). In a separate note each week, curated links to creativity research circulates to the same group. No content repeats week to week. The post Updates–February 2, 2017 appeared first on Creative Media Industries Institute.
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Be a Data Magician – An Excel Workshop for Humanists
Source: UGA Digital Humanities Initiative
URL: Be a Data Magician – An Excel Workshop for Humanists
In our series of data tutorials, Joey Stanley, Linguistics Ph.D student, has put together a comprehensive Excel workshop for humanists. This workshop was well attended by a diverse cross-section of the campus community including students, faculty, staff and librarians. Joey provided a broad overview of…
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TOME Discussion
Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: TOME Discussion
Following the previous two blog posts where I looked at a few topic modeling interfaces, I’ll return to the lab here and write about TOME. These are based on image documentation of the project – not actual interaction with the program. Strengths: Multiple views: One of the first things I noticed was that it combines different views onto one page. This combines the previous two interfaces I discussed – where one had too many disparate views and the other had one view, but was limited in other representations as a result. Here, the main visualization can be seen at the…
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InPhO Topic Explorer
Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: InPhO Topic Explorer
This interface works in terms of visualizing a topic modeling and understanding context. However, less effort has gone into the visual and interaction design than in the last interface discussed, which makes for a steeper learning curve. Starting Interface The interface begins as a drop-down menu within the homepage, which also includes documentation on the code and how to download it. I already know that in our design, we’re focusing attention on the interface and exploration of the topic model results. We will probably want the documentation to be separate from the interface, like the interface in the previous blog…
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Topics in PLMA interface
Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Topics in PLMA interface
To start thinking about how we might design an interface to act with topic modeling results, it’s worth looking at existing interfaces and what they do well or don’t do well. This interface by Andrew Goldstone allows for browsing topic models of articles from PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association of America. The model and code can be used for other sets of text – this is just an example. The interface has multiple views and ways to explore the model – something can be learned from each of these. The site as a whole, and the navigation…
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Georgia Digital Humanities Summit meeting
The first Georgia Digital Humanities Summit took place on December 9, at Georgia State’s CURVE data visualization lab. The summit, sponsored by the University of Georgia with support from a Mellon Foundation New Director’s Grant, and hosted by Georgia State,…
Source: UGA Digital Humanities Initiative
Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities: Overview (1)
Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities: Overview (1)
In this post: What is a topic model? UX considerations Existing techniques This will be the first post in a series of posts as we begin a new project on exploring topic modeling for the digital humanities, following the previous work of (link)TOME. A topic model is a model of how often words occur together in a group of texts. Many other posts have been written about the definition of “topic model” in detail, in addition to detailing various algorithms. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/topic-modeling-and-digital-humanities-by-david-m-blei/ http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/2-1/what-can-topic-models-of-pmla-teach-us-by-ted-underwood-and-andrew-goldstone/ http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/topic-modeling-and-mallet https://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/07/topic-modeling-made-just-simple-enough/ Here, I am going to highlight some challenges of viewing, exploring, and learning from topic modeling…
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CFP for Atlanta Studies Symposium 2017
Title: CFP for Atlanta Studies Symposium 2017
Source: Events – Atlanta Studies
URL: https://www.atlantastudies.org/2017/01/10/cfp-for-atlanta-studies-symposium-2017/
Fifth Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium:
Rethinking Equity in Atlanta
April 26th, 2017
Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center
Atlanta, GA
Though the city of Atlanta continues to thrive, as it has for the past century and a half, social stratification and inequality has remained a persistent part of its urban fabric throughout. For the fifth annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, to be held at the Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center on April 26, 2017, we invite academics, citizens, and practitioners to investigate and explore past and present issues around equity and inclusion in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
This symposium poses the questions: How might we better understand the issues around equity that are specific to Atlanta? What are we talking about and not talking about, when we discuss equity in Atlanta? How might we design a future Atlanta that better serves all of its citizens?
We seek panels and paper presentations that address such topics from a wide range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. In addition, we welcome proposals on any aspect of Atlanta, past, present, or future, though priority will be given to those that directly relate to the conference theme. We welcome both fully constituted panels of three to five paper presentations, as well as individual papers or posters for consideration for inclusion in this symposium, though priority will be given to full panel proposals.
The fifth annual Atlanta Studies Symposium will feature a keynote address from Professor Zandria Robinson of Rhodes College.
Please submit abstracts via this form no later than February 15, 2017: https://goo.gl/forms/B3gLqOoVtKbxdeZo1
Notifications will be sent out by March 1, 2017.
If you have questions about the event, please email:
Sponsors of the event include the Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Emory University’s Center for Digital Scholarship, Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of City and Regional Planning, and Georgia State University’s Council for the Progress of Cities, Department of History, and Department of Geosciences.
Award-Winning GSU Student Research Team gives a shout out to CURVE!
Title: Award-Winning GSU Student Research Team gives a shout out to CURVE!
Source: CURVE
URL: http://sites.gsu.edu/curve/2016/10/13/award-winning-gsu-student-research-team-gives-a-shout-out-to-curve/
A team of Master of Science in Information Systems students from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business placed first in the SAP competition, Project Dream: Election 2016. Their “Women in Power” project compared support for the Democrat Party presidential nominees, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, using data mined from Twitter. You can read more […]
Summer 2016 Meetup
Title: Summer 2016 Meetup
Source: Events – Atlanta Studies
URL: https://www.atlantastudies.org/2016/06/22/summer-2016-meetup/
Summer 2016 Atlanta Studies Meetup
June 28, 2016
Elevator Factory
These quarterly meetings showcase Atlanta-focused projects and bring together a group of folks interested in our city. We will provide a few snacks. Buy your own drinks.
This meetup will focus on the development of the Memorial Corridor. Our speakers:
Greg Giuffrida is the Memorial Drive Corridor Executive, a new role that grew out of a 2014 studio project performed by graduate students in Georgia Tech’s School of City and Regional Planning. It is funded by a range of stakeholders on Memorial Drive and hosted by Central Atlanta Progress. Greg’s job is to work with neighborhoods, public agencies, and property owners to make Memorial Drive a safer, more efficient, and more inviting connection for Southeast Atlanta. He will discuss the following: how an academic project evolved into an applied role; the many political and bureaucratic layers that shape the physical condition of Memorial Drive; and real-time planning in a rapidly changing urban environment.
Chris Appleton is co-founder and Executive Director of WonderRoot. As a Reynoldstown homeowner, Director of a Memorial Drive-based organization, and member of the Reynoldstown Civic Improvement League Board of Directors, Chris has been actively engaged in the visioning for and development of Memorial Drive. Chris’ presentation will focus on the role arts & culture have played in the Memorial Drive communities and how WonderRoot is seeking to leverage the power of the arts to create a sense of place and mitigate the negative effects of gentrification.
The Plan:
7:00 – Grab some snacks (we will provide a few) and order a drink (that’s on you)
7:15 – Presentations and Q&A
8:30 – Networking, chit chatting, order another drink