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Real, or Ideal? OR What To Name A Post When No Cohesive Theme Binds It Together
1. Academia Last night I went to the “Evening for New Graduate Students” at BYU (which was actually secretly or not-so-secretly open to all graduate students — note for next year ). President Samuelson...
View ArticleFall Semester
I blame my lack of blogging in recent months on being busy with my first semester of graduate school. In the interim before I start the next semester, I want to let you — oh loyal reader — know what...
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Visualizing Texts as Networks
Yes, Heman is in the Bible! For a recent project in my text mining class we were required to explore ways of visualizing textual data. This is a tricky problem due to the nature of text, mainly because...
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Hubris
When I saw that the various things I was working on and talking about with people brought a Tennyson poem, Doctrine and Covenants 45, a book about pre-Columbian civilizations, and my own poetic...
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Seduced by Big Data
What do you need of you want to be Big Brother? Big Data, of course! Data is powerful, and “big data” is very powerful. I deal with it every day in my work as a research scientist at Adobe, where I...
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A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Senators: Staring Into The Gaping Ideological...
In this post, I’m going to introduce you to a cool-looking graph, tell you what it means, and give the technical details of its generation—all because I think America might care. Here we go....
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“A Republic, If You Can Keep It”
NSA 9000 I’m really disturbed (surprised isn’t quite the right word) at what I’m learning about the government’s massive, untargeted surveillance of millions of American citizens over the last 7 years....
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Decentralizing the Web… Again
…cloud computing represents centralization of information and computing resources, which can be easily controlled by corporations and governments. [Jaeger, et al. Link] In the wake of Prismgate or the...
View Article‘they’ is not a drop-in replacement for ‘he’ and ‘she’, but we could use one
Singular usage of ‘they’ is well-established in English, going back centuries. Depending on your exposure to it, you may yourself use it regularly, as I happily do. It’s great having a single word...
View ArticleProf. Mark Davies’ ouster at BYU
Mark Davies was a professor of linguistics at BYU who created tools for analyzing large collections of text, a method known as corpus analysis. He ran a website, corpus.byu.edu, where these text...
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