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There are 11 posts tagged statistics (this is page 1 of 3).

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Appreciability & Experimental Digital Humanities

Operationalize: to express or define (something) in terms of the operations used to determine or prove it. Precision deceives. Quantification projects an illusion of certainty and solidity no matter the provenance of the underlying data. It is a black box, through which uncertain estimations become sterile observations. The process involves several steps: a cookie cutter to make […]

February 4, 2014 | 6 Comments

Submissions to Digital Humanities 2014

Submissions for the 2014 Digital Humanities conference just closed. It’ll be in Switzerland this time around, which unfortunately means I won’t be able make it, but I’ll be eagerly following along from afar. Like last year, reviewers are allowed to preview the submitted abstracts. Also like last year, I’m going to be a reviewer, which […]

in personal research | November 5, 2013 | 1,066 Words | 6 Comments

Friends don’t let friends calculate p-values (without fully understanding them)

I wrote this in 2012 in response to a twitter conversation with Mike Taylor, who was patient enough to read a draft of this post in late November and point out all the various ways it could be changed and improved. No doubt if I had taken the time to take his advice and change […]

in method | April 25, 2013 | 1,854 Words | 17 Comments

Liveblogged Review of Macroanalysis by Matthew L. Jockers, Part 2

I just got Matthew L. Jocker’s Macroanalysis in the mail, and I’m excited enough about it to liveblog my review. Here’s the review of part II (Analysis), chapter 5 (metadata). Read Part 1, Part 3, … Part II: Analysis Part II of Macroanalysis moves from framing the discussion to presenting a series of case studies around a theme, starting […]

in reviews | April 15, 2013 | 2,323 Words | 2 Comments

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