Academic… Happy Birthday JajAndTheDigitalHumanities.com! 16 Nov 2020 November 16th, 2018: Amidst the flurry of graduate school applications; GRE score evaluations, TOEFL exam, letter of recommendation requests, personal essays, research essays, financial statement essays, Visa considerations research, educational…
Academic… Project MERCURY-SIMREC Model Demonstration 6 Sep 20206 Sep 2020 While working on the Agent-based Model Simulation of the Trading along the Ancient Silk Route, one of the prominent models that inspired me was the Project MERCURY-SIMREC. For the CSS…
Academic… Reflections on National Gallery of Art Virtual Summer Internship 2020 10 Aug 202012 Aug 2020 “Hello, I am Jaj, the summer intern with the Department of Analytics and Enterprise Architecture (TDS-AEA) at NGA and a Computational Sciences graduate student, Digital Scholarship Graduate Research Assistant at…
Academic… Silk Road Simulation and Visualization: Part 2 – How to Plan a Digital Humanities Project 27 Jun 202011 Jul 2020 Sequel to Silk Road Simulation and Visualization: Part 1 – How to get Started on a Digital Humanities Project My laser focus this Spring 2020 semester was to work on…
Academic… Silk Road Simulation and Visualization: Part 1 – How to get Started on a Digital Humanities Project 29 May 202028 Feb 2021 You and I walk through a city street, sweating in the dry heat, the billowing colorful clothes our protection against gusts of oddly piercing cold that bring in musty aroma…
Academic… A Guide to Digital Humanities Summer Internships 27 May 20206 Feb 2021 This is a sprawling blog post if there ever was one. Read on to find out what I worked on for around 5 months to try interning in the world…
Academic… Modeling Market Interactions with Zero-Intelligence Traders Model 3 May 20203 May 2020 Let me preface by thanking 14 year old me for taking Economics as her elective over Computer Science. It was a doubtful move and I still am not comfortable with…
Academic… Mathematics and Multidisciplinary Me 2 May 2020 Even as I stepped foot into George Mason University, wide-eyed about the prospect of coming across Digital Humanities research, I fell harder in love with my department itself. Here I…
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…