In my last post, I detailed a dry-run using a data set of sixteen images.  I have now expanded the set to 42 Blue Note album covers, spanning from 1956 to 1969, with most of them from the late 1950s, to early […]

Here’s a narrative on the progress of my project.  As I’m sure many of you already know, my interest is in somehow displaying jazz album cover art, as in a visualization, or a in some kind of new way of seeing […]

I have been wrestling with my concepts for an interesting project, trying to make it happen through all the nuts and bolts of collecting a data set, cleaning it up, etc., when it finally occurred to me that I was […]

I learned many interesting things about mapping in our session with Steve Romalewski.  There was some overlap with what we went over with Frank Donnelly, which is good, but each presentation was unique and we are […]

“Vocabulary Changes in Agatha Christie’s Mysteries as an Indication of Dementia:  A Case Study” is an interesting use of text mining in pursuit of a demonstration of possible evidence of dementia in the use and […]

For some time now, I have been toying with the idea of visual analysis of jazz album cover art, as cultural artifacts, and being able to view them/group them using different filters, such as average brightness, […]

OK, it’s hard for me to admit this, but in going through Birnbaum’s post on Regular Expressions, my eyes quickly glazed over and he lost me in about three paragraphs.  This is exactly the sort of thing I have been […]

Hello all, this is a blog for Digital Humanities Methods and Practices, or MALS 75500.  My major purpose for taking this course is a) it’s interesting and b) there will come a time when almost everybody will be […]