To mark the end of the teaching year, DACKI will be hosting its third year-end, relaxing introduction to the digital, featuring Manhattans & Martinis. On May 7th at 4:15 in Allbritton 311–the room with the view–come for a cocktail, some snacks, and conversation. We’ll listen to several of our colleagues share their reflections on trying … Read more
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
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
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
Ellen Thomas, Research Professor of Earth and Environmental Studies, is featured on the News @ Wesleyan blog. “Up until recently, Thomas taught students about microfossils through microscope studies and by showing text book illustrations and images embedded in slide presentations. But with support from the National Science Foundation, Thomas and her peers were able to … Read more
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 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
Part of the goal of the Digital and Computational Knowledge Initiative is to get faculty to enrich their knowledge of techniques and concepts so we can then share it with a wider audience. Over the last couple of years, we have been keen to push network analysis to the forefront. This fall a group of … Read more
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 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
