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diffusion

There are 4 posts tagged diffusion.

Bridging Token and Type

There’s an oft-spoken and somewhat strawman tale of how the digital humanities is bridging C.P. Snow’s “Two Culture” divide, between the sciences and the humanities. This story is sometimes true (it’s fun putting together Ocean’s Eleven-esque teams comprising every discipline needed to get the job done) and sometimes false (plenty of people on either side […]

January 18, 2014 | Comment

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

Rippling o’er the Wave

The inimitable Elijah Meeks recently shared his reasoning behind joining Google+ over Twitter or Facebook. “G+ seems to be self-consciously a network graph that happens to let one connect and keep in touch.” For those who haven’t made the jump, Google+ feels like a contact list on steroids; it lets you add contacts, organize them into […]

in reviews | October 28, 2011 | 528 Words | Comment

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