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Know Your Sources (Part 1)
This is part of a series of technical essays documenting the computational analysis that undergirds my dissertation, A Gospel of Health and Salvation. For an overview of the dissertation project, you can read the current project description at jeriwieringa.com. You can access the Jupyter notebooks on Github.
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Extracting Text from PDFs
This is part of a series of first drafts of the technical essays documenting the technical work that undergirds my dissertation, A Gospel of Health and Salvation. For an overview of the dissertation project, you can read the current project description at jeriwieringa.com. You can access the Jupyter notebooks on Github.
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Downloading Corpus Files
This is part of a series of first drafts of the technical essays documenting the technical work that undergirds my dissertation, A Gospel of Health and Salvation. For an overview of the dissertation project, you can read the current project description at jeriwieringa.com. You can access the Jupyter notebooks on Github.
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Updating the Dissertation Description
Dissertations can be fickle things. When I started my A.B.D. journey in 2014, I had a very ambitious project outline, and very little understanding of the technical skills I needed to see it through. Since then, through a lot of hard work and a number of false starts, I have greatly expanded my technical skills, learned a good deal about data management (thanks, Wendy!), and discovered how true it is that even (especially?) with computers, less is more when it comes to scholarly projects. While I hope in future iterations of the project to bring network and geospatial analysis to bear on my examination of the evolving relationship between beliefs, health practices, gender dynamics, and temporal imaginaries in the development of the Seventy-day Adventist Church, the dissertation itself will focus on textual analysis of the periodical literature produced by this prolific religious movement.
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I can haz charts!
[Update: Thanks to an excellent suggestion from Chris Sexton, the visualizations are initially image files, and you can click through to the interactive html versions. Browser overload no more!]
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Religion and Data: A Presentation for the American Academy of Religion 2016
On November 19th I had the opportunity to be part of the Digital Futures of Religious Studies panel at the American Academy of Religion in lovely San Antonio, Texas. It was wonderful to see the range of digital work being done in the study of religion represented and to participate in making the case for that work to be supported by the academy.
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Selecting a Digital Workflow
Disclaimer: workflows are rather infinitely customizable to fit project goals, intellectual patterns, and individual quirks. I am writing mine up because it has been useful for me to see how others are solving such problems. I invite you to take what is useful, discard what is not, and share what you have found.
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Bridging the Gap
I am so excited that Celeste Sharpe and I have been awarded an ACH microgrant for “Bridging the Gap: Women, Code, and the Digital Humanities”. This grant will help us create a curriculum for workshops aimed at bridging the gender gap between those who code and those who do not in the Digital Humanities
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Summer of Research, Part I
The Lean Dissertation
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All Models are Wrong
This piece is cross-posted on the ACH Blog