Historian. Mathematician. Digital Humanist.
We got the first long-term forecast warning of a hurricane forming on November 6th, 2024. We prepared for a Category 3 hurricane and that s what hit the National Science Foundation. But as has become common in the last few years, the hurricane underwent a rapid intensification and what hit the Institute of Museum and Library READ MORE
To every thing there is a season and while I still do love the theme I picked out when I originally moved my website to WordPress, even I have to admit that it s showing its age a little bit. And I don t just mean in terms of aesthetics. While the theme amazingly has stayed functional READ MORE
This is a lightly edited and updated version of an invited talk I gave at the DHSI Summer Institute in 2021. It is based on sustainability work we ve been doing at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) and while I m leading the charge, I want to start by acknowledging the contributions of READ MORE
When a university press contacted me to peer review a book for the first time, I was thrilled. I was recognized by someone as an expert! And being paid for that expertise didn t hurt either. Then I was anxious. Did I actually *know* how to write a peer review? I d published a few articles and book READ MORE
NOTE: This is a lightly edited version of a talk I gave at the inaugural Chesapeake DH 2020 conference. My original intention was to wait to publish this until after June, to see if the trends I d identified continued through this year s DHSI. But the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent cancellation of READ MORE
This is a stub blog post related to my presentations at the AHA 2020 Getting Started in DH workshop. It lists (and links) all the tools I expect to reference: Gephi Google Maps NetLogo Omeka OpenRefine Palladio QGIS TimelineJS Tropy Twine Voyant Zotero I have a few tutorials/walkthroughs for Gephi and Omeka at https://jessicaotis.com/tutorials/
For some years now, I ve been analyzing conference Twitter data and sporadically posting about it online, including twitter threads written from various airports. While I ve had a method from the beginning, that method has evolved over time: most significantly, I got tired of endless hours of Open Refine data cleaning and automated the network creation READ MORE
This is an edited version of a lightning talk I gave at the Shakespeare Association of America Folger Digital Tools (Pre-Conference) Workshop. In March of 2019, Meaghan Brown of the Folger Shakespeare Library came to George Mason University s campus to run an encode-a-thon with the upper-level undergraduates who were students in my Early Modern England course. READ MORE
This past Saturday was the second annual Current Research in Digital History conference, organized by Stephen Robertson and Lincoln Mullen (with help from the amazing Thanh Nguyen), and co-sponsored by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, the Colored Conventions Project, and the African American Intellectual History Society. For those of you who are READ MORE
It s that time of year again: job adverts begin popping up online, academics polish up their CVs, and all the grad students, contingently employed scholars, and other job-seekers begin praying that they ll be employed this time next year. I ve been incredibly fortunate to have been employed by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries for the past four READ MORE