Speakers: Patricia Murrieta-Flores – Digging into Early Colonial Mexico: computational approaches to the geographic relations of New Spain David Gullick & Joseph Richardson – Eliciting Fuzzy Location Data from Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing Alan Marsden – Big Data and Arts Research: using normalized compression distance to find ‘interesting’ paintings
Tag: GIS
Prospects for using the digital humanities in demographic history
On Monday 28 November 2016 the Spatial Humanities project held a meeting of invited experts from around the world to consider together how digital approaches, such as the ones developed during the project, might contribute to future research in demographic history. The focus of the day was to look at current research challenges in these fields, and ask where the tools of digital humanities could be of most use. The goal is to help clarify a future research agenda in which the digital humanities move from the demonstration of tools and techniques to the delivery of new knowledge discovery. A …
Reading and mapping Swallows and Amazons
On July 24 this year, the new film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s children’s classic Swallows and Amazons (first published in 1930, and set in summer 1929) had its world premiere at the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick, one of the more frequently-visited towns in the Lake District National Park. The film, like the book on which it’s based, tells the story of the four Walker children – John, Susan, Titty (renamed Tatty in the film) and Roger – and their adventures on and around a Cumbrian lake. The film’s director, Philippa Lowthorpe, was drawn to the project because Ransome’s …