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Networks Demystified 9: Bimodal Networks

What do you think, is a year long enough to wait between Networks Demystified posts? I don’t think so, which is why it’s been a year and a month. Welcome back! A recent twitter back-and-forth culminated in a request for a discussion of “bimodal networks”, and my Networks Demystified series seemed like a perfect place for just […]

Networks Demystified 7: Doing Co-Citation Analyses

So this is awkward. I’ve published Networks Demystified 7: Doing Citation Analyses before Networks Demystified 6: Organizing Your Twitter Lists. What depraved lunatic would do such a thing? The kind of depraved lunatic that is teaching this very subject twice in the next two weeks: deal with it, you’ll get your twitterstructions soon, internet. In […]

Early Modern Letters Online

Early modern history! Science! Letters! Data! Four of my favoritest things have been combined in this brand new beta release of Early Modern Letters Online from Oxford University. Summary EMLO (what an adorable acronym, I kind of what to tickle it) is Oxford’s answer to a metadata database (metadatabase?) of, you guessed it, early modern […]

Contextualizing networks with maps

Last post, I talked about combining textual and network analysis. Both are becoming standard tools in the methodological toolkit of the digital humanist, sitting next to GIS in what seems to be becoming the Big Three in computational humanities. Data as Context, Data as Contextualized Humanists are starkly aware that no particular aspect of a […]

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