In the digital age, no book, no project, is ever really finished. Excited about the book finally coming to press, we re-read our materials in preparing this website and realized there is still more work to do. While it is…
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Using the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer to extract data from texts
In our lesson on regular expressions, we were able to extract some of the metadata from the document because it was more or less already formatted in such a way that we could write a pattern to find it. Sometimes…
Dynamic Networks in Gephi
Network analysis is great when we are dealing with a static network. Most metric algorithms are built to work with networks that capture one moment in time (where moment can be defined as everything from a single day, to a…
Paper Machines
When APIs and source code are made openly available, magic can start to happen. If one wanted to plumb the inner workings of Zotero, the bibliographic and research software from the Roy Rosenzweig Centre for History and New Media, it…
8000 Canadians
Reading thirteen volumes from cover to cover is not lightly to be essayed. This author tried it for eight volumes; then, in the middle of volume IX came volume XIII in the mail. The sheer size of volume XIII broke…