Academic… Computational Social Sciences Complexity, Simulation, and Modelling 17 Jan 2020 The science of complexity gives us a better sense of analyzing the world around us. There are different types of complexity and each have their own proponents. Algorithmic Complexity grasps…
Academic… Origins of Humanities Computing 17 Jan 2020 Punched Cards and a Concordance program The 56 volume Index Thomisticus, a complete lemmatization of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas and of a few related authors The aim of…
Data Visualization… Notes on Open Data and Malaysian Data Efforts 7 Jan 2020 Think about the wildest, most out there, statistic you can think of. How many bright yellow coats are sold every year? Which place in the world issues the most number…
Academic… What is the Computational Social Sciences? 5 Jan 2020 Computational Social Sciences is the field of study which largely involves the application of digital tools in the research of humanities. It ranges from the understanding of simple human patterns…
Academic Reflections on Grad school: Fall 2019 Sem 1 4 Jan 20208 Jan 2020 Over the last year, I realized I wanted this blog to act as a pointer for Me circa 2017. The 21-year-old Jaj who was desperate to find a way amalgamating…
Academic Update: Grad School Courses & Digital Scholarship GRA 2 Nov 20192 Nov 2019 Just today, I attended a Data Scraping with Python workshop, waltzed into an Advanced Excel workshop, and then took the trip over to a seminar on Heavy-tailed data with Rob…
Art… My Journey To Data Visualization 19 Apr 201922 Jan 2020 In the Digital Humanities Winter School (Pune, 2018) conducted by Center of Digital Humanities Pune's Dr. Dhanashree Thorat, I became a sort of specimen among all the humanities and liberal…
Art… Digital Humanities in Gaming: Can Mario, Dr. Ford, and Charlie Brooker Act as Futuristic Gaming Digital Humanists? 21 Feb 201921 Feb 2019 Is there anything more powerfully immersive in culturally relevant stories, than video games? I still remember my childhood summer holidays consumed by Age of Empires games. I spent hours on…
Academic… Update: Nominated for Digital Humanities Awards! 16 Feb 2019 JajandtheDigitalHumanities.com is nominated for Digital Humanities Awards under the BEST DH BLOG POST OR SERIES OF POSTS category. You can check out all the nominations for the year 2018 here:…
Academic… My First Ever Conference Experience 18 Dec 201818 Dec 2018 or, How a Techie Marketer person found herself in the midst of a LOT of Singaporean poetry, discussions on Mahasweta Devi, and even Queer-baiting in Harry Potter. Like most engineering…
