THATCamp | cforster | Activity https://thatcamp.org/people/cforster/activity/ Activity feed for cforster. Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:50:49 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=5.1.2 en 30 hourly 2 b785a450241f2c4f338aca0748c12cb9-en cforster wrote a new post, Build-A-Bot Workshop, on the site THATCamp CNY 2017 http://cny2017.thatcamp.org/?p=198 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:40:03 +0000 Automated text generation is interesting and provocative for folks interested in writing; I am thinking of provocations like the material created for NaNoGenMo; but more often, this sort of text generation […]

]]> c44a3d1ab8643d699eafe7494c56f4e7-en cforster commented on the post, Making/Breaking Circuits, on the site THATCamp CNY 2017 http://cny2017.thatcamp.org/2017/04/01/makingbreaking-circuits/#comment-10 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 02:40:54 +0000 This sounds like a great idea to me. I’ve just been tinkering with an Arduino telegraph (like this one https://code.google.com/archive/p/tworsekey/), and would be happy to bring that along as well.

]]> bb62ce9af798c829303308f82371d637-en cforster wrote a new post, Mark Your Calendar! THATCampCNY, April 7th, 2017, on the site THATCamp CNY 2017 http://cny2017.thatcamp.org/?p=140 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:17:37 +0000 We’re continuing the tradition of Spring THATCamps in Central New York (as in 2014 and 2016)!

Mark your calendars for April 7th, 2017, when we’ll be holding a THATCamp in Bird Library on the campus of Syracuse University.

]]> fb128d01cca8948e57a2071ef3037f23-en cforster wrote a new post, Let's Build an Edition!, on the site THATCamp CNY 2016 http://cny2016.thatcamp.org/?p=222 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:02:50 +0000 Related to my other proposal—a sort of general discussion of text encoding—I wonder if anyone would be interested in trying to put ideas about text encoding into practice by trying to imagine into existence a smal […]

]]> 53bc5551d49423016a4e38850591ce20-en cforster wrote a new post, All Variously Imperfect: The Problem of Representing Text Digitally, on the site THATCamp CNY 2016 http://cny2016.thatcamp.org/?p=220 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:00:07 +0000 I continue to be fascinated by the fundamental problem of representing texts—I’m thinking of literary texts in particular (and, lately, poetry, especially), and the many solutions (all variously imperfect) tha […]

]]> 5a2008fca6bb09e8f42b4ae875aadaf2-en cforster wrote a new post, Wrapping Up, on the site THATCamp Central New York 2014 http://cny2014.thatcamp.org/?p=273 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:59:02 +0000 Thanks again for coming out. We hope that you’re now back in the swing of things, perhaps a little wiser for a day or so’s discussion with other folks.

If you have a moment, we (and that good folks at THATCamp […]

]]> 02ac77c2a8e9671ce8986f7662080cfc-en cforster commented on the post, Text Analysis: Hows and Whys, on the site THATCamp Central New York 2014 http://cny2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/07/text-analysis-hows-and-whys/#comment-49 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:46:24 +0000 Excellent. Please do Michelle!

]]> 42e5bdb3f1da32d609d70778fd6ea61f-en cforster wrote a new post, Text Analysis: Hows and Whys, on the site THATCamp Central New York 2014 http://cny2014.thatcamp.org/?p=203 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 02:14:52 +0000 A comment on another proposal mentions algorithmic text analysis. I would love a session focused on how people are taking advantage of digital tools to deal with particularly textual information and questions of […]

]]> 532dd013ca70f5925172a812f6b6c056-en cforster commented on the post, It's awn! Introducing THATCamp Historic Places, on the site THATCamp Central New York 2014 http://cny2014.thatcamp.org/2014/03/31/individual-scholar-level-collections-and-archives/#comment-8 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:30:01 +0000 I actually used Omeka in a class a few years ago. I would love to hear how folks would want to use Omeka, or a content platform like it, in the undergraduate classroom. This could be a rich topic I think.

]]> e7649b1b3c3a05fa0652560970da6ef8-en cforster wrote a new post, Individual, "Scholar-Level" Collections and Archives, on the site THATCamp Central New York 2014 http://cny2014.thatcamp.org/?p=157 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 03:41:31 +0000 I’m interested in the use, and usefulness, of what I’ll call here (both for want of a better term, and as a deliberate provocation) “scholar-scale” collections of materials. To flesh out what I’m talking about, […]

]]> 4b4c550e5b2cbf2ab2bb195f8254c9ac-en cforster commented on the post, Hack Proposals, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/20/hack-proposals/#comment-417 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:50:16 +0000 Ditto; HTML5 in particular. If folks would be interesting in talking about canvas, I’d like to hear more about it. Would canvas be a good option for doing any sort of text visualization (graphs, etc) on the web, […]

]]> 1af3f56c3df33f32a467cdd7be0ac2e5-en cforster commented on the post, Mine your own business, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/20/mine-your-own-business/#comment-416 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:48:56 +0000 I looked at some Conrad texts in MALLET today; I wrote a quick ruby script (it’s very stupid and liable to break, but I’m happy to share) to pull all the words in a text file out (proper names mostly) and then fed […]

]]> 67cefdeb2d5a9312f47d7850f36ee643-en cforster commented on the post, DH Beyond Plain Text, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/09/dh-beyond-plain-text/#comment-405 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:36:39 +0000 Just popped up via twitter, not irrelevant:
http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2012/04/software-studies-initiative-awarded.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

]]> bd8a3bf1bfc8abc6319b1487f448c1df-en cforster commented on the post, Mine your own business, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/20/mine-your-own-business/#comment-391 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:56:00 +0000 Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I just reference Ted Underwood’s intro to topic modeling in a DHAnswers post, and I’ll be returning to it this evening in anticipation of tomorrow. I recommend it to others as a […]

]]> 6b071cd01d1e471e9e32c26187d9f723-en cforster commented on the post, Would you like fries with that?, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/19/would-you-like-fries-with-that/#comment-370 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:24:43 +0000 This is a conversation I would love to be a part of; and, at the risk of unduly complicating things, to my mind it recalls that other infamous Tom Scheinfeldt question: are we experiencing the sunset of ideology? […]

]]> a67740b29ccb717d6b7a4ede52d0a3be-en cforster commented on the post, DH Beyond Plain Text, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/09/dh-beyond-plain-text/#comment-337 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:17:52 +0000 What a well-crafted and thoughtful proposal. I would love to hear folks’s thoughts on this b/c (with perhaps the exception of the tools Manovich is using) I’m completely unaware of the sorts of things one could do […]

]]> f63e0e260ee65a7d6c8c01303ea5e5fc-en cforster commented on the post, N-Grams, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2010 http://virginia2010.thatcamp.org/12/16/n-grams/#comment-188 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:51:15 +0000 Yeah, so, I’ve been playing with this for the last couple hours; would love to hear other’s thoughts (here is one of my current favorites: http://bit.ly/h113wH ). The study (it’s free but requires registration, […]

]]> a1ef1d2c3c484ab61381ebb14260bb91-en cforster commented on the post, WordPress Theme Hackery, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2010 http://virginia2010.thatcamp.org/12/15/wordpress-theme-hackery/#comment-171 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:56:05 +0000 This sounds great to me. I wonder, would any discussion of omeka themes (with which I’ve tinkered a little.. and only just escaped with my life) take us too far afield?

]]> a2fdb03e461a4fe4ed5079717eb0ca9d-en cforster commented on the post, Network Analysis and Lit Crit, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2010 http://virginia2010.thatcamp.org/12/07/network-analysis-and-lit-crit/#comment-152 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:00:10 +0000 Jeff, sounds like you and I are on the same page. I’m definitely looking forward to talking about text visualization. I’ve been poking around your recent bunch of posts on network analysis…

While I don’t want […]

]]> 2a99ab4c55d06e1b330d02da7c6ea98c-en cforster wrote a new post, Qualifying Quantity: Text Analysis and Methodology, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2010 http://virginia2010.thatcamp.org/12/08/qualifying-quantity-text-analysis-and-methodology/ Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:05:20 +0000 The recent New York Times series on DH picked up a thread that has been fascinating me for a while:

A history of the humanities in the 20th century could be chronicled in “isms” — formalism, Freudianism, […]

]]> 68131e2b5618daeb34be676c3111c554-en cforster wrote a new post, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Digital Humanities... but Were Afraid to Ask, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/?p=1044 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 It is midnight on Wednesday. I am enormously excited for Saturday’s THATCamp extravaganza (it will be only my second THATCamp experience; my first was here in Charlottesville as well); and I am feel grossly […]

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