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Networks Demystified 8: When Networks are Inappropriate

A few hundred years ago, I promised to talk about when not to use networks, or when networks are used improperly. With The Historian’s Macroscope in the works, I’ve decided to finally start answering that question, and this Networks Demystified is my first attempt at doing so. If you’re new here, this is part of […]

in method | November 5, 2013 | 2,105 Words | 4 Comments

Historians, Doctors, and their Absence

[Note: sorry for the lack of polish on the post compared to others. This was hastily written before a day of international travel. Take it with however many grains of salt seem appropriate under the circumstances.] [Author’s note two: Whoops! Never included the link to the article. Here it is.] Every once in a while, […]

in reviews | October 20, 2013 | 1,000 Words | 2 Comments

Breaking the Ph.D. model using pretty pictures

Earlier today, Heather Froehlich shared what’s at this point become a canonical illustration among Ph.D. students: “The Illustrated guide to a Ph.D.” The illustrator, Matt Might, describes the sum of human knowledge as a circle. As a child, you sit at the center of the circle, looking out in all directions. Eventually, he describes, you […]

in miscellanea | September 3, 2013 | 896 Words | 6 Comments

Predicting victors in an attention and feedback economy

This post is about computer models and how they relate to historical research, even though it might not seem like it at first. Or at second. Or third. But I encourage anyone who likes history and models to stick with it, because it gets to a distinction of model use that isn’t made frequently enough. […]

in personal research | October 10, 2012 | 3,174 Words | Comment

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