When recovering from an injury, hospital bills can quickly stack up and create a financial burden. It can be overwhelming to face huge medical bills after an injury. But you are not alone – there are a number of ways to go about recovering your unpaid hospital bills. Understanding the…
Colonialism Through the Veil Posts
Can Data Silences Speak?
Posted in Digital Humanities, News and Notes, Percolating Ideas, and Research
Visualizing data absences prompts us to ask, Can the silences in the data speak? And if so, what do they say? How do silences in the data inform our understanding of the past and its representations? Can silences also inform the construction of an ontology?
With support from UCLA’s DH Research Accelerator Program, this project will use text analysis methods, including topic modeling, collocation and sentiment analysis, as well as experimental methods to examine the complex relations between Indigenous peoples, settlers, military leaders, and metropolitan officials to understand how American settler colonialism developed between 1776…
HASTAC 2019: Silent No More – Using Text Mining and Social Networks to Decolonize the History of Algerian Women
Posted in Digital Humanities, and Research
This project seeks to decolonize knowledge about Algeria, as well as the archive by repurposing digital tools to surface the most marginalized voices and experiences. In combination, text mining, close reading, and network analysis enable us to uncover the untold stories of both exceptional and ordinary women who lived between 1567 and 1837, the period in which this region was an Ottoman territory.
Seeing in and through Silence
Posted in Percolating Ideas, and Research
“we ask to what extent the data have the capacity to characterize a person, an event, a period, or an experience. Where the data exhibit significant informational paucity, indeterminate values, inordinate biasing, or limited scope it is common to cast them aside in pursuit of something held to be more…
How did the Ottomans hold their empire together? 1800 miles separate Algiers and Istanbul (Constantinople on the map above). How did power flow from the center to the peripheries and back? Who exercised power and influence? How? The Ottoman Empire has long held a fascination for scholars, but only recently…
Topic Modeling 18th Century American Correspondence
Posted in Digital Humanities, and Percolating Ideas
This is a lightning talk of ongoing research, given at the 2018 American Historical Association meeting on January 4, 2018. I’ve revised the text of the talk to provide more details about this project below. Initially, this talk was entitled, “Text Mining 18th Century American Correspondence,” but I began my…
Visualizing the Birth of Settler Colonial Empires Using Multimodal Digital Historical Research Methods
Posted in Digital Humanities, and Percolating Ideas
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History of the Old Northwest
Posted in Digital Humanities, and Percolating Ideas
A work-in-progress timeline by DGHM 150: Digital Humanities Studio students to make sense of the complicated history of what is now the American Midwest from 1754 to 1795: