Designing Infographics for the “Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions” Project

Since the end of January, I’ve been working part-time for James Baker and Rossitza Atanassova, joining the end of the project titled “Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship.”  The project has researched ways in which computational methods could shed light on how historical points of view were transmitted over time through …

What Counts as Culture? Part I: Sentiment Analysis of The Times Music Reviews, 1950-2009

Introduction Alongside my PhD, I’ve been working part-time for the Centre for Data, Culture & Society, collaborating with Dave O’Brien, Orian Brook, and Mark Taylor on a project called “What counts as culture?”  The technical side of the project began by selecting articles from The Times Digital Archive using defoe, a tool built to analyze …

Reflections on my first PhD Publication at the Second Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing

The homepage of the virtual COLING 2020, where the Second Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing was held. This winter (December 2020), I published a new research methodology for Natural Language Processing (NLP) researchers to consider, which I refer to as a bias-aware methodology. Earlier in the year, a couple months into my PhD research …

Visualizing Peace: PA-X Timelines and Map

This is the third post in a series of blogs about data visualizations of PA-X, a database of peace agreements created by the Political Settlements Research Programme at the University of Edinburgh.  This blog was originally published on the PA-X Visualization project website. The PA-X data visualizations are LIVE! Visit Visualizing Peace to view peace …

PA-X Timeline Progress

This is the second post in a series of blogs about data visualizations of PA-X, a database of peace agreements created by the Political Settlements Research Programme at the University of Edinburgh.  This blog was originally published on the PA-X Visualization project website. With the PA-X timeline nearly complete, I’ve decided to reflect on how …

PA-X Timeline: a Data Visualization for the Peace Agreements Database

This summer the University of Edinburgh’s Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) hired me to visualize their database of peace agreements, PA-X.  Similar to many organizations with large amounts of data (such as Google, the World Health Organization, and the Library of Congress), PSRP recognizes the value of data visualization in research as twofold: visualization facilitates …

Thinking Symbiotically for Sustainability

This post was originally published for a Biodesign project at the University of Edinburgh that's exploring the relationship between the biology of trees and the architecture of cities. The Macro Symbiosis Project provides a systemic solution [1] for sustainable urban lifestyles, taking biological, ecological, social and cognitive systems into account.  As climate change exposes the …

Contextualisation

During the holiday between semesters I visited New York City. At the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the third floor, I saw Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World. I reached the exhibit just as a free tour was about to begin, so I thought I might as well follow along. About halfway …

Why I Came to Scotland

Enter a search into Google.  Now try to get to the end of the resulting list of websites.  Visit the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, and ask your tour guide how many buildings house the Library’s materials, and whether that’s anywhere near sufficient.  As individuals and as organisations, we’ve attempted to make our …

Coming Full Circle

My vacation ended in the south of France, back where I lived during my time abroad last year. There are so many things to see along the French Riviera that my friends and I had a hard time choosing what to do. The weather helped us out a bit, though. We arrived in Antibes in …