DHH Archive

This is an archive for WJ Turkel, Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the Infinite Archive (2005-08). You can find the blog at Blogger.com. As of 29 Dec 2008, this archive is still under construction.

• 20081229 Coda
  

• 20081209 Some Winter Reading for Humanist Makers
  

• 20081121 A Few Arguments for Humanistic Fabrication
  

• 20081108 Hemlines and History Appliances
  

• 20081102 The Bridge Goes Both Ways
  

• 20081006 The One True Language
  

• 20081003 Navigating Digital History
  

• 20080921 Hello World!
  

• 20080906 Practices, Not Products
  

• 20080820 Traces of Use
  

• 20080807 Arms Races
  

• 20080720 Towards a Computational History
  

• 20080703 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 14
  

• 20080701 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 13
  

• 20080627 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 12
  

• ob-test-false-positives.py (Python program)
  

• 20080625 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 11
  

• ob-online-learning.py (Python program)
  

• 20080622 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 10
  

• 20080621 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 9
  

• 20080618 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 8
  

• ob-compute-doc-freqs.py (Python program)
  

• ob-compute-tfidf.py (Python program)
  

• ob-cross-validate-tfidf-learner.py (Python program)
  

• 20080617 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 7
  

• ob-cross-validate-learner.py (Python program)
  

• 20080613 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 6
  

• 20080612 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 5
  

• ob-tenfold-crossvalidation-sample.py (Python program)
  

• ob-count-offence-instances.py (Python program)
  

• 20080609 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 4
  

• ob-trial-id-list.py (Python program)
  

• ob-get-date-range.py (Python program)
  

• ob-offence-category.py (Python program)
  

• ob-offence-index.py (Python program)
  

• ob-count-offences.py (Python program)
  

• 20080607 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 3
  

• ob-clean-copy-trials.py (Python program)
  

• 20080605 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 2
  

• ob-split-into-trials.py (Python program)
  

• 20080524 A Naive Bayesian in the Old Bailey, Part 1
  

• 20080517 Geo-DJ, Part 3: The Simplest Working Version
  

• 20080516 Geo-DJ, Part 2: Storage vs. Computation
  

• 20080510 Beginning in the Middle
  

• 20080504 The Programming Historian is Now Available
  

• 20080410 Fitness Functions
  

• 20080405 Visualizing the Emergence of a Strategic Knowledge Cluster
  

• generalized-network-growth.dot (Graphviz script)
  

• 20080325 Monitoring the Backchannel
  

• 20080323 A Lunchtime Chat
  

• 20080310 Pupation
  

• 20080306 A Cure for Continuous Partial Attention
  

• 20080217 OSes/2
  

• 20080211 Prototyping a Tangible Interface for Google Earth
  

• google_earth.pde (Processing program)
  

• google-earth.py (Python program)
  

• 20080204 Freedom of Expression
  

• 20080120 Relevance Feedback
  

• 20080114 The Programming Historian
  

• 20080108 Results When and Where You Need Them
  

• 20080105 All is Flux
  

• 20080102 What's the Opposite of Big History?
  

• 20080101 The Search Comes First

• 20071228 On Blogs and Frogs
  

• 20071203 Geo-DJ, Part 1: The Idea
  

• 20071120 Physical Computing Cards
  

• 20071113b How To: Make a Museum Exhibit Mockup with Free Tools, Part 3
  

• 20071113 How To: Make a Museum Exhibit Mockup with Free Tools, Part 2
  

• 20071112 How To: Make a Museum Exhibit Mockup with Free Tools, Part 1
  

• 20071109 History Appliances: Laser Spirograph
  

• 20071028 Seams and the Suspension of Disbelief
  

• 20071021 The Archive as Time Machine
  

• 20071012 Unoriginal
  

• 20070927 Brainstorming History Appliances
  

• 20070917 The Importance of Infrastructure
  

• 20070910 Sounds Like Sepia
  

• 20070901 A Plea for Concept Projects
  

• 20070827 Some Varieties of Time Machine Worth Having
  

• 20070818 Perpetual Analytics with Compression
  

• 20070731 Putting It in Your Own Words
  

• 20070721 Import-Export Specialists
  

• 20070719 History Appliances: Spoka
  

• 20070702 Search Refinement with Compression
  

• ncd-probe.py (Python program)
  

• 20070627 Clustering with Compression
  

• ncd-dcb.py (Python program)
  

• ncd-dcb-graph.py (Python program)
  

• ncd-dcb-graph.txt (Graphviz script)
  

• 20070619 Hope, the New Research Strategy
  

• 20070618 Seeing There
  

• 20070609 History Appliances: The Soundscape
  

• 20070522 What It's About 3: Interaction
  

• 20070518 What It's About 2: More is Different
  

• 20070507 What It's About 1: Links and Bias
  

• 20070505 It's Not About Computers
  

• 20070422 The Trouble with Modernity
  

• 20070417 Luddism is a Luxury You Can't Afford
  

• 20070416 Hacking the Hacks
  

• 20070411 History Appliances: The Metronome
  

• 20070402 The Alien's Ruler
  

• 20070330 Digital Infrastructure for Collaborative Research
  

• 20070318 Phidgets: Introduction
  

• phidgets-interface-kit-demo.py (Python program)
  

• phidgets-quad-servo-demo.py (Python program)
  

• 20070317 Idioms
  

• 20070315 How To: Do Simple Visualizations
  

• 20070312 Coming Soon: History Appliances
  

• 20070306 Design for a Kiosk in a Cabinet
  

• kiosk.py (Python program)
  

• 20070225 What's in the Other Corner?
  

• 20070216 How To: See the Field at a Glance
  

• 20070213 How To: Scrape a Web Page to RSS Feed
  

• 20070211 Easy Pieces in Python: Munging
  

• digital_history_courses_20070210.xml (Data file: XML)
  

• 20070210 Syllabi for Digital History Classes
  

• digital_history_courses_20070210.csv (Data file: comma separated values)
  

• 20070204 Exploratory Bibliography 3: Temporal Strata in Recommendations
  

• exploratory-bibliography-06.py (Python program)
  

• 20070201 More Readings for a Field in Digital History
  

• 20070130 Keywords and Clues
  

• 20070127 Exploratory Bibliography 2: Visualization
  

• exploratory-bibliography-03.py (Python program)
  

• 20070125 Exploratory Bibliography
  

• exploratory-bibliography-01.py (Python program)
  

• exploratory-bibliography-02.py (Python program)
  

• 20070122 5 Things (about Memes and the Blogosphere)
  

• 20070109 Readings for a Field in Digital History
  

• 20070106 The Ambience Act

• 20061227 Bent Circuits and Buzz Machines
  

• 20061226 Digital History Year in Review
  

• 20061213 Pedagogy for Collective Intelligence
  

• 20061211 Collective Intelligence and ARGs
  

• 20061208 Histories of the Future
  

• 20061126 The Difference That Makes a Difference
  

• 20061115 In the Trading Zone
  

• 20061109 Wikis and Philological Criticism
  

• 20061029 The Spectrum from Mining to Markup
  

• 20061015 Behind the Scenes of a Digital History Site
  

• 20061012 Searching for History
  

• 20061010 Tapera-DHH Survey of History Blogs
  

• 20061006 Zotero Beta Launched
  

• 20061003 On N-gram Data and Automated Plagiarism Checking
  

• 20060928 No 'Secret Syllabus' for Digital History
  

• 20060924 Student Reflections on Digital History
  

• 20060919 Extending Zotero for Collaborative Work
  

• 20060909 What We Need Now is a Good Trolling Engine
  

• 20060907 A First Look at Zotero
  

• 20060904 Nature's Metropolis and Its Hinterland
  

• 20060903 Easy Pieces in Python: Simple Scraping
  

• 20060901 Digital History Blogging Update
  

• 20060830 Easy Pieces in Python: A Lookup Table
  

• 20060828 Undergraduate Training for Digital History
  

• 20060825 Digital History Interns 2006
  

• 20060823 Easy Pieces in Python: Removing Stop Words
  

• 20060821 Easy Pieces in Python: Keyword in Context
  

• 20060820 Easy Pieces in Python: Word Frequencies
  

• 20060810 Google as Corpus
  

• 20060805 A Metric for the Popular Imagination
  

• ngd-calculator.pl (Perl program)
  

• 20060802 Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth and Place-Based Computing
  

• 20060724 Working in the Browser
  

• 20060717 Frobisher: Search for Early Canadian History
  

• frobisher.cgi (CGI program)
  

• 20060716 A Graduate Course in Digital History
  

• 20060628 Retconning? Or Revision?
  

• 20060626 Setting up a Server
  

• 20060621 A Roundup of Digital History Blogs
  

• 20060618 Refracted Footnotes
  

• 20060613 Broken Links
  

• 20060612b A Search Engine for 17th-Century Documents
  

• 20060612 An Experimental Interface
  

• 20060604 Experimenting with the TAPoR Tools
  

• 20060517 Blogging and/as Stepwise Refinement
  

• 20060511 Developments at Kodak (and Elsewhere)
  

• 20060429 SIP Mapping
  

• sip-map.pl (Perl program)
  

• 20060425 My Folders at the McCord
  

• 20060409 Information Costs
  

• 20060405 Methodology for the Infinite Archive
  

• 20060326 Mechanical Turk does Public History
  

• 20060319 Compression
  

• 20060313 Measuring Library Holdings
  

• h-reviews.pl (Perl program)
  

• h-rev-catalogue.pl (Perl program)
  

• 20060310 Blogospheric Stock
  

• 20060305 Text Mining the DCB, Part 6
  

• 20060301 Brief Hiatus
  

• 20060219 Text Mining the DCB, Part 5
  

• 20060210 Historiographical Process(ing)
  

• 20060209 Text Mining the DCB, Part 4
  

• dcbo-distances.pl (Perl program)
  

• dcbo-minmax-dists.pl (Perl program)
  

• 20060207 Doing Digital History
  

• 20060204 Text Mining the DCB, Part 3
  

• dcbo-vol1-features.txt (Data file: raw text)
  

• dcbo-features.pl (Perl program)
  

• dcbo-vol1-featurespace.csv (Data file: comma separated values)
  

• 20060129 Text Mining the DCB, Part 2
  

• dcbo-entry-txt.pl (Perl program)
  

• 20060128 Text Mining the DCB, Part 1
  

• dcbo-ids.pl (Perl program)
  

• dcbo-vol1-ids.txt (Data file: raw text)
  

• dcbo-people.pl (Perl program)
  

• 20060122 The Adams Effect
  

• dcbo-ids-chg.pl (Perl program)
  

• ids-chg.csv (Data file: comma separated values)
  

• 20060116 Historical Topics in the 'Long Tail'
  

• 20060115 Who is in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography?
  

• dcbo-ids-cloud.pl (Perl program)
  

• 20060107 Findable Public History

• 20051226 Teaching Young Historians to Search, Spider and Scrape
  

• 20051218 Digital History Hacks