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The document discusses the relationship between rules and emergent patterns/products in computer programming and digital art. It notes that programs like 10 PRINT and Conway's Game of Life demonstrate how finite rules can generate infinite patterns, and how digital art is similarly created through algorithms. The document then asks how these concepts might be applied to studying real art and literature using computers, suggesting we can view such works as patterns generated by underlying rules, and that text too has been shown to follow probabilistic patterns. It proposes experimenting with generating text in this way.
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Mdst3705 2013-02-26-db-as-genre
This document discusses how databases can be considered a symbolic form that shapes how we think. It argues that databases make the underlying paradigmatic structure or model of information more visible and mutable compared to traditional narrative forms where the paradigm is hidden. Examples are provided of how digital games and archives expose the database structure underlying them. The implications of this for digital humanities projects and understanding authors like Walt Whitman who may be well-suited to database form are also examined.
Mdst3705 2013-02-19-text-into-data
This document discusses how to model text data in a database. It explains that while XML is useful for representing logical structure, it does not capture complex relationships within text like figures of speech that crosscut the structure. Relational databases provide a better model as they can represent these network-like relationships. The document presents an example of a database that stored words as individual records linked to information about figures, grammar, and other annotations to generate a rich interactive text edition and discover patterns not visible to simple readers. Modeling text as structured data in a database allows for new insights into the cultural patterns conveyed by the text.
Mdst3705 2013-02-12-finding-data
This document discusses databases and data modeling. It begins by defining what big data is and how databases underlie digital products. It then discusses how the digital humanities deals with large amounts of digitized information sources. The document goes on to explain how databases can be used to ingest and combine data sets to create new data. It also discusses how databases allow for inferences to be made through relations between tables. Finally, it covers database design, including creating entity relationship diagrams to model data and mapping those diagrams to database tables.
Mdst3705 2013-01-24-php2
The document discusses the PHP programming language, noting that it uses variables, values, expressions, and other constructs to model and create "worlds" through code, and introduces some basic PHP concepts like variables, arrays, control structures, functions, and sigils. Exercises are provided to emulate the 10 PRINT program in PHP and learn about arrays, control structures, and functions by riffing on the 10 PRINT model to produce other outcomes.
Mdst3703 graph-theory-11-20-2012
Graph theory can be used to represent and analyze relationships in networks. It has been applied to topics like maps, timelines, and texts. Critics argue that quantitative graph theory approaches produce trivial results and miss nuanced features important to literary analysis. However, proponents argue that data can be interpreted like a text, and correlations found can generate new insights and research directions.
Mdst3703 maps-and-timelines-2012-11-13
The document discusses using maps and timelines for visualization. It provides four ways that maps and timelines can be used: 1) Plotting precise spatial and/or temporal coordinates, 2) Drawing artistic overlays, 3) Appropriating maps and timelines as metaphors for abstract dimensions, 4) Combinations of these approaches with layers. The functions of these visualizations include telling stories or starting conversations at the border between narrative and data. Historical examples like Minard's map of Napoleon's march are discussed.
Mdst3703 culturomics-2012-11-01
The lecture discusses Google's Ngram Viewer and culturomics methodology. Ngram analyzes 500 billion words from books 1500-1800 in several languages. Culturomics applies big data methods like Ngram to analyze trends in culture quantitatively over time. The studio portion has students collaboratively build a character index using structured data, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Mdst3703 visualization-2012-10-23
This document discusses how new forms of knowledge are being generated through large datasets and data visualization. It provides examples of visualizations created from data from sources like Flickr, Twitter, and Wikipedia tags/edits that show trends, locations, and connections. The document argues this represents a new "epistemology" or way of knowing that relies more on correlations in large amounts of data than traditional models and theories. It notes how this is similar to shifts towards empirical knowledge seen before.
Mdst3703 shiva-2012-10-18
1) The document provides an overview and review of the Project Studio 1 course, including reviewing homework on preliminary markup of document chapters and introducing the SHIVA and Google Docs/Spreadsheets tools.
2) It outlines reviewing homework assignments, making sure chapters are copied and properly located with paragraph elements tagged and IDs added.
3) It introduces the SHIVA tool for creating visualizations and interactive networks, asking students to create a sample collaborative network diagram for an exercise.
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Mdst3705 2013-01-31-php3
- 1. PHP 3 Prof. Alvarado MDST 3705 31 January 2013
- 2. Business • Course Schedule posted – Include project days in April that may be used for more content, depending on progress
- 3. Review • Hackers = builders – Coders and Painters are both hackers – Building is a way of knowing (praxis) – Coders and Painters have different skills • Hacking involves awareness of two levels – LEVEL 1: Rules, methods, techniques – LEVEL 2: Effects, emergence, products – The two levels interact – The two levels are in tension
- 4. Programs like 10 PRINT and Conway’s Game of Life exemplify the difference and relationship between levels
- 8. Digital art is created by algorithms like these
- 9. What happens when we want to study “real” art and literature? How can we use the computer to help in the task of interpretation? (The digital humanities is about interpreting the art, literature, and other products of human intellectual labor)
- 10. We can view works of art and literature as patterns generated by rules
- 13. What about text?
- 14. Claude Shannon showed that English is governed by probabilities It is possible to generate sentences that almost make sense, using a random generator, like the 10 PRINT program, governed by probabilities for each letter or word
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