visualization

Counting words

Submitted by travis on October 14, 2008 - 11:05am.
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Yesterday's New York Times profile of the work of James Pennebaker is just the latest evidence of a revival of interest in computational stylistics, and I'd be curious to hear other HASTAC Scholars' thoughts on the topic.

I'd be the first to admit that I have something of a counting fetish, and I'd love to see this kind of thing done well, but I can't help thinking that arguments like the following have a touch of the phrenological about them:

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March feelings from wefeelfine
idontfeelthatstrange
Feelings from Charlotte, NC
acceptable
Diet Bars
sandwich
Singapore
Fat Albert
poetry

This set of pictures depict what I found on March 2, 2008 from the WeFeelFine website. I learned about this website in my Visualization class this semester.

How Networks Work

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on December 13, 2007 - 12:41pm.
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If you go to www.sparkip.com, you will find the best searchable database for scientific technologies anywhere. This is SparkIP, an online intellectual property network for the scientific community that was co-developed by historian of science Tim Lenoir and engineer Rob Clark of Duke and Kristina Johnson (formerly dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke and now Provost at Johns Hopkins).

CAVE Technology: The Future of Education?

Submitted by Mechelle on November 2, 2007 - 11:15am.
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CAVE Technology: The Future of Education?