DaCKI Manhattans and Martinis

Tuesday, December 15th at 4:15 in Allbritton 311 Classes will be but a memory, a bit of grit for your pearls of winter productivity. There will be nice snacks and cocktails of course, rye and gin, maraschino and lemon where they’re meant to be. We’ll be there to hear about (and see) some of the diverse … Read more

“Predicting Premier League Soccer Using a Sentiment Analysis of Twitter” with Professor Robert Schumaker

In this talk Professor Schumaker, who teaches at Central Connecticut State University, will try to answer the question: “Can the sentiment contained in tweets serve as a meaningful proxy to predict match outcomes and if so, can the magnitude of these outcomes be similarly predicted based on the degree of sentiment?” This talk should be an excellent … Read more

Tyler Lange: “What is the Church?”

Between 1300 and 1550, church court across Europe frequently excommunicated delinquent debtors for breach of faith. This did not reflect the preoccupations of prelates or ecclesiastical judges, but widespread, popular demand for legal-religious remedies in matters of day-to-day, relatively minor credit. By examining the practice of excommunication for debt in light of recent theories of … Read more

Maps, Networks, and Art Markets: Doing Digital Art History

Monday, March 30th, 2015, at 4:15pm in Usdan 108. A talk with Pamela Fletcher, Professor of Art History and Co-Director of the Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, Bowdoin College. How and why did galleries run by dealers become the standard way to sell art? Professor Fletcher considers the invention of the commercial art gallery in London … Read more

Amanda Cox: “Data Visualization at the New York Times”

Wesleyan will host The New York Times’ Amanda Cox, who will give a talk on “Data Visualization at the New York Times.” Cox has been an essential part of one of the most interesting developments in contemporary journalism, the growth of data journalism, which in the innovative contexts of papers such as the Times and … Read more

Dr Silke Schwandt: Digital Humanities

Dr Silke Schwandt from Bielefeld University will lead an informal discussion of getting involved in collaborative digital humanities projects and integrating new text analysis methods in research. Schwandt will talk about her experience as a humanist involved in a large multi-year digital humanities project to make richly accessible the largest single body of medieval texts, and … Read more

Allen Carroll: “Story Maps: Geo-Enabled Storytelling in the Digital Age”

Talk: Monday, November 17th at 3pm GIS, remote sensing, GPS, and the Internet have transformed maps from static documents into dynamic windows on a rapidly changing world. Combining maps with multimedia content and user experiences comprises a powerful new storytelling medium. Allen Carroll, former chief cartographer at National Geographic and current program manager of storytelling … Read more

Lev Manovich: How to see 300 million images? Exploring large cultural data to unlearn what we know

Lev Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which was described as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” Manovich is a Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY, … Read more

Christopher Weaver: The Informed Entrepreneur: Applying Lessons of Experience and Science to Improve Startup Success

Biography: Chris Weaver teaches in Materials Science and Engineering and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He received his S.M. from MIT and was the initial Daltry scholar at Wesleyan University, where he earned dual master’s degrees in Japanese and Computer Science and a CAS Doctoral Degree in Japanese Ethnomusicology and Physics. The former Director of Technology Forecasting for … Read more

Stephen Berry, Digital Humanities

Stephen Berry is Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era in the Department of History at the University of Georgia and the author or editor of four books on America in the mid-19th century, including House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War. Berry is co-director, with Claudio Saunt, of both … Read more