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history of science

There are 12 posts tagged history of science (this is page 2 of 3).

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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 […]

in theory | January 18, 2014 | 1,982 Words | Comment

From Trees to Webs: Uprooting Knowledge through Visualization

[update: here are some of the pretty pictures I will be showing off in The Hague] The blog’s been quiet lately; my attention has been occupied by various journal submissions and a new book in the works, but I figured my readers would be interested in one of those forthcoming publications. This is an article […]

in personal research | August 9, 2013 | 463 Words | 1 Comment

An experiment in communal editing: Finding the history & philosophy of science.

After my last post about co-citation analysis, the author of one of the papers I was responding to, K. Brad Wray, generously commented and suggested I write up and publish the results and send them off to Erkenntnis, which is the same journal he published his results. That sounded like a great idea, so I am. […]

in personal research | July 6, 2013 | 267 Words | Comment

Networks Demystified 4: Co-Citation Analysis

This installment of Networks Demystified is the first one that’s actually applied. A few days ago, a discussion arose over twitter involving citation networks, and this post fills the dual purpose of continuing that discussion, and teaching a bit about basic citation analysis. If you’re looking for the very basics of networks, see part 1 […]

in method | June 30, 2013 | 3,168 Words | 5 Comments

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