Hi All —
Here’s an upcoming event at NYU that is likely to be of interest:
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An Information Futures Symposium on Data Mining and Visualization for the Humanities
Monday, March 19, 2012 1:00 PM – 6:30 PM
NYU Open House, 528 La Guardia Place
Schedule:
1:00-1:15 Opening Remarks
Mara Mills, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication (NYU)
1:15-2:30 “Visualizing Social and Semantic Space in Brazilian Literature, 1840s-1890s”
Zephyr Frank, Associate Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Spatial History Project, Stanford University
2:45-4:00 “To the Isdr;tor of the 1’etc-YerL Timca : Text as data”
Mark H. Hansen, Professor of Statistics, University of California-Los Angeles
4:15-5:30 “Big Data and Collaboration Between Disciplines”
Lev Manovich, Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Software Studies Initiative, University of California-San Diego
5:30-6:00 Open Discussion
Moderated by Lisa Gitelman, Associate Professor of English and of Media, Culture, and Communication (NYU)
6:00-6:30 Reception
Event co-sponsored by the New York University Libraries Information Futures Initiative and the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication