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My name is Miriam Posner, and I coordinate and teach in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California, Los Angeles. You can read more about me here.Archives
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July 7–9: University of Indiana, Bloomington
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Tweets!
- In fact, one of the reasons I like being at UCLA so much is that my students remind me a lot of the hardworking kids I went to HS with. 16 hours ago
- @jagriffin Here you go! It's super basic, but it has a link to other info: https://t.co/apaibTCQbY 16 hours ago
- Story about my alma mater, WC Overfelt HS, in E San Jose. WCO struggles in many ways, but I was lucky to go there. http://t.co/za7MTDHcMx 16 hours ago
- .@schock describes efforts to use natural language processing on big datasets of names to determine employment discrimination. #labormedia 1 day ago
- .@forrespect is the Twitter handle for Organization United for Respect at Walmart. #labormedia 1 day ago
- OK, just FYI, @OURWalmart is definitely not the Twitter account for #ourwalmart. #labormedia 1 day ago
Category Archives: Tools
Very basic strategies for interpreting results from the Topic Modeling Tool
Written with Andy Wallace, with methods and ideas borrowed from Zoe Borovsky If you’re reading this, you may know that topic modeling is a method for finding and tracing clusters of words (called “topics” in shorthand) in large bodies of … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Humanities, research, Tools
Tagged dh201, Topic model, topic modeling, tutorials
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Use Automator to combine your research photos into one PDF
By request, these are updated instructions for using your Mac to combine your research photos into a PDF. For more on digital research workflows, see here, here, and here. If you have a Mac, you own a robot! It’s called … Continue reading
Posted in History & Technology, Tools
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Research tools redux: What I use
I posted recently about tools for managing a research workflow, and one of the points I made is that no set of tools will be right for everyone. I’ve tried and failed to foist my favorite tools on enough people to … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Humanities, History & Technology, Libraries, research, Tools, Writing
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Customize your network visualization
In my last post, I explained how you can visualize a network of film personnel (really, any kind of network) using Cytoscape. When I left off, we’d created a network visualization, but it didn’t look exactly terrific. Here’s how you … Continue reading
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Visualize a network of film casts and crews
A friend of mine wrote to me recently with a request. For his dissertation, he’s unearthing the filmmaking culture of a particular time and place. “I keep running across these names of actors and filmmakers,” he wrote, “and I know … Continue reading
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The iPad in academic settings: what I like, what I’d like to see
One of the developers here at the library asked me to tell him a little bit about my experience using the iPad in an academic setting. Here are his questions: Where do you find your self using the device the … Continue reading
Posted in History & Technology, research, Tools
Tagged ipad, Notes taking, Notetaking, Writing, Zotero library
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Film Study: an iPad app built for cinephiles
I’ve been using an iPad for about six months now. I like it, don’t get me wrong, but it hasn’t been the life-changing device I’d sort of been expecting. I haven’t found that many apps that really take advantage of … Continue reading
Posted in History & Technology, research, Teaching, Tools
Tagged cinema, film, ipad, technology
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