Category: Literature & Language
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Twitter-Analytical Algorithm
My group and I are working on a project where we analyze specific twitter posts and search for specific keywords within these tweets. First, we are going to develop a program that can read through Twitter.com and collect every recent tweet. This program would have a filter on it allowing us to narrow down the […]
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Background on Contrapuntos IV project (revista literaria bilingüe)
Hello everyone! The presentation of Contrapuntos IV in Phoenix, AZ at Palabras Librería/ Bookstore on February 11th went very well. We had a good turn-out, especially being that it took place during a Saturday afternoon. We really appreciated all the support! I just wanted to (finally) write more about the project as I wrote that I would. […]
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First playtest of the alpha
[Reblogged from Shakespearevideogame.com] Earlier this month, we had the first playtest for the alpha version of the game, up in the gorgeous and glorious cafe of The Garage at Northwestern. In this playtest, we were looking at the playability/intuitiveness of Macbeth’s walk and roll, his two attack strokes, and the balance of damage to him vs. his health […]
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Voyant Analysis- Climate Change- Obama & Trump
In this practicum, I will attempt to form a critical analysis based off of the views of President Trump and Barack Obama by comparing their word choices from a speech given by Obama and an interview with President Trump. After running both of the speech transcripts through Voyant Tools, I show the output below. Obama’s […]
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Theater Meets Border
Border, for many people, is just a physical reality. For them, it is just a wall or a mesh of convoluted wires suspended from iron bars with the intention of delineating national boundaries and keeping illegal migrants from crossing to the other side of the divide. But what if the border is not just a […]
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Contrapuntos IV: Digital (and print) bilingual literary magazine
Hello fellow scholars! Over the past year I’ve been busy working on a digital and print literary magazine with my colleague Marcos Rentería. The bilingual literary magazine, Contrapuntos IV: An experimental edition (2016) will be presented at Palabras Librería/Bookstore in Phoenix, Arizona today at 4:00pm. Our presentation will also be live streamed, and I would like to […]
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Digital Humanities & Computation Essentials?
What is an algorithm? This question might seem trivial to some, but to those not familiar with programming rhetoric the answer to this question remains ambiguous. Simply put an algorithm is a set of rules that a program must follow in order to complete a task or solve a problem. Algorithms are heavily used by […]
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Exploration of Voyant Tools
Every morning I read a couple of articles from the New York Times in order to stay updated on news from around the world and stay cognitive of developing news. I like this news source because most of their articles are very informative and are structured in a simplistic manner. From reading each article, […]
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Feminist Text Mining and “Big Data”
I was surprised that a feminist digital humanist, Lisa Rhody, would be interested in text mining of “big data” because of the problematic assumptions behind text mining itself. Rhody brings up one of them: that text mining of “big data” currently relies upon positivistic claims of objectivity. The Western traditions of scientific […]
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Learning About Topic Modeling
Ted Underwood and Megan R. Brett raise some interesting points about the pros and cons of text analysis. In his article “Where to start with text mining,” Underwood states that there are two obstacles to getting started with text mining: gathering data and cultivating the necessary skills to pit that data. Underwood goes on to […]