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Work with me! CMU is hiring a DH Developer

Carnegie Mellon University is hiring a DH Developer! I’ve had a blast since starting as Digital Humanities Specialist at CMU. Enough administrators, faculty, and students are on board to make building a DH strength here pretty easy, and we’re neighbors to Pitt DHRX, a really supportive supercomputing center, and great allies in the Mayor’s Office […]

Ghosts in the Machine

Musings on materiality and cost after a tour of The Shoah Foundation. Forgetting The Holocaust As the only historian in my immediate family, I’m responsible for our genealogy, saved in a massive GEDCOM file. Through the wonders of the web, I now manage quite the sprawling tree: over 100,000 people, hundreds of photos, thousands of census records & historical […]

What’s Counted Counts

tl;dr. Don’t rely on data to fix the world’s injustices. An unusually self-reflective and self-indulgent post. [Edit: this question was prompted by a series of analyses and visualizations I’ve done in collaboration with Nickoal Eichmann, but I purposefully left her out of the majority of this post, as it was one of self-reflection about my own […]

Down the Rabbit Hole

WHEREIN I get angry at the internet and yell at it to get off my lawn. You know what’s cool? Ryan Cordell and friends’ Viral Texts project. It tracks how 19th-century U.S. newspapers used to copy texts from each other, little snippets of news or information, and republish them in their own publications. A single snippet of […]

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Work with me! CMU is hiring a DH Developer

Ghosts in the Machine

What’s Counted Counts

Down the Rabbit Hole