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Shoutout to Taming Data Readers/So You Want a Ph.D….?

30 November 2010
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I’d like to thank the readers of this blog. I am completely amazed each day that anyone finds what I want to natter on about in any way interesting. But I am pleased that you do.
The following video has nothing to do with taming data, but it is funny. (If you are doctoral student or [...]

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The Humanities Take on Data Mining via Google Books

22 June 2010
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The Humanities are “Going Google”, according to Marc Parry of The Chronicle, in a piece he wrote a few weeks ago.
The gist of the article is that some Humanities scholars are very interested in data mining the texts scanned in for the Google Books Project.
Why do they want to use Big Data mining techniques [...]

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