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James Chartouni wrote a new post, Using Cytoscape to Visualize Police Shootings, on the site Social and Political Issues on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
This blog post is a review of my experience using the data visualization tool Cytoscape to map out police shootings across the United States.
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James Chartouni wrote a new post, Reflections on Group Project, on the site Teaching and Learning on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
Our project is to provide computational analysis of ‘Black Twitter’ to expose relationships, connections and digital social circles within the online community. There is an inherent issue of processing and und […]
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James Chartouni wrote a new post, Textual Analysis of LBJ and Barry Goldwater's Convention Speeches, on the site Social and Political Issues on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
I chose to analyze Barry Goldwater and President Lyndon Johnson’s convention speeches using Voyant’s text analysis tools. This election has fascinated me because it portrays two radically different […]
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James Chartouni wrote a new post, A Review of the Nelson Mandela Foundation: The Prison Years Gallery, on the site Educational and Cultural Institutions on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The Nelson Mandela Center of Memory: The Prison Years is one of thirteen online galleries developed to promote Nelson Mandela’s life’s work and use his past to catalyze future social change. The website can be fou […]
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James Chartouni wrote a new post, DH and Computational Tools, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Data mining and quantitative textual analysis provide new ways to read and analyze text. Google’s NGrams were mentioned by Underwood as a great example of new ways to ‘read’ text. NGrams essentially measur […] -
James Chartouni wrote a new post, Experience Editing Wikipedia, on the site Technology, Networks, and Sciences on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Wikipedia has been an invaluable resource because it embodies so many of the best elements of the web. It takes advantage of the internets near zero marginal cost nature to become available to every […]
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James Chartouni wrote a new post, Social Media and Social Justice, on the site Social and Political Issues on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The recent spate of police violence stories has been credited to the proliferation of smartphone cameras uncovering examples of excessive force. What is missing from that equation is the role of soc […] -
James Chartouni wrote a new post, Kiva: Using Crowd Sourcing to Serve the Underbanked, on the site Social and Political Issues on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
I chose to support non-profit micro lender Kiva by participating in a syndicated loan. The recipient, Milka, is a Kenyan corn farmer and mother of four who was looking to expand her farming operation buy […]
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James Chartouni wrote a new post, Digital Archives and the Atlantic Slave Trade, on the site Publishing and Archives on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Relational databases were an important business innovation because they finally allowed corporations to see what was actually going on in their company. Its predecessors, hierarchal databases were, brittle […]
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James Chartouni wrote a new post, TEI Header XML tags, on the site Publishing and Archives on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
The file Header provides the critical metadata needed to identify and cite the file. It is composed of five major components. The fileDesc provides all the necessary information needed to write a conventional […]
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James Chartouni wrote a new post, Making the Humanities Digital, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
Thoughts on the Digital Humanities Impact on Academia
When fundamental assumptions change, the product should change as well. The new medium both adds and removes constraints, fundamentally changing the nature of […] -
James Chartouni wrote a new post, Blog Post 2, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
The library is burning to the ground, and you have time to save one thing: a book on a shelf, a digital photo of the book and its pages, or or the book or manuscript digitally transcribed (that is, typed into a […]
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James Chartouni wrote a new post, Blogification of the Humanities, on the site Publishing and Archives on HASTAC Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
One of the primary reasons I decided to take this course instead of others was not a compelling interest to study the humanities. There were many other alternatives in the same department that could offer that […]
