4 tips for a responsive, readable blog design
Some of you regulars (hi Mom) may have noticed a recent and long overdue facelift to this blog. It’s the Build WordPress theme by Pushkraj Dole, but with major structural and aesthetic modifications....
View ArticleTesting out the NLTK sentence tokenizer
I’m currently taking a text mining class with Dr. Catherine Blake at GSLIS. Our first assignment was to pre-process 50,000 .txt files containing scientific abstracts and information about them, all...
View ArticleReading Experience Database text mining project
Cross-posted at my Day of DH 2012 blog. About the project I have really been enjoying Dr. Cathy Blake‘s Text Mining class this semester, in a large part because I’ve been given access to data that...
View ArticleNotes on digital preservation and Jason Scott’s JCDL keynote
I was fortunate to be able to spend some time in Washington, D.C., for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012) last week. I went as part of a group from the Center for Informatics...
View ArticleReview of the Jawbone UP wristband after 3 months
UP wristband by Jawbone. Nails by Essie. Only suitable backdrop within reach by Dodocase. Edit June 23, 2013: spoiler alert! You grow to love the wristband but it dies young. I’ve had my Jawbone UP...
View ArticleGames I play
I’ve been asked a few times in recent weeks about whether I’m a gamer and what games I recommend. I hardly game at all, to be honest, and aside from revisiting classic (S)NES games on the Wii, my...
View ArticleRecent presentations
This semester has been rather busy for me with various projects at the John Jay Library, two computational linguistics courses at the Graduate Center, and an imminent performance with Gamelan Kusuma...
View ArticleSome notes from Theorizing the Web 2014
On Saturday, I went to Theorizing the Web, held in a lovely Williamsburg studio on a gorgeous spring day. I didn’t get to see Friday’s panels, but even seeing half the conference was pretty...
View ArticleUsing the Internet of Things to wake up in the morning
When I was a kid, my mom would wake me up by setting our tiny dog loose on my bed and playing the fake-attack-Robin game. I’d reenter to the world with tiny paws pattering all over my belly and...
View ArticleQuestions from children about my job
My mother, a fourth grade teacher at a public school, asked several young STEM professionals (including me) to send photos & letters to her students about their jobs. The idea is threefold: to...
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