John Ladd
Assistant Prof @ Washington & Jefferson CIS
Data science, cultural analytics, network analysis, early modern lit, birds
jrladd.com
- [Not loaded yet]
- [Not loaded yet]
- Thanks! Yes, developing MorphAdorner was the earliest stage of the project (which has had different names over the years). There’ve been lots of transformations and spot-checking since, so the texts themselves are the more authoritative source for spelling variations. morphadorner.northwestern.edu
- Yes! You can download all of EP’s texts and metadata: earlyprint.org/download/. Our texts on are on Bitbucket instead of GitHub, but they work similarly.
- And for the original question, you can search for any individual word in its regularized form and get all its variant spellings with the EarlyPrint corpus search: eplab.artsci.wustl.edu/blacklab-fro... (Just click on advanced and search under “reg”.)
- Had a good time collaborating with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and the AI for Humanists team on this! It also features some data we've been cooking up for @print-and-prob.bsky.social. Worth thinking about whether you have a research task that a local LLM could help with...
- New NEH-supported tutorial on running LLMs locally with ollama! Your laptop is more powerful than you think. Save money, privacy, and energy. aiforhumanists.com/tutorials/
- Had a blast with so many new friends at the @pricelab.bsky.social’s Dream Lab workshop last week! For anyone interested in applying DH methods to book history questions, here’s a mini-site with a guide and all the materials from “Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books”: jrladd.com/digitalbooks/
- For anyone interested in #DH and #CulturalAnalytics for early modern studies and book history: I'm very excited about the new Dream Lab course I'm teaching in May! Registration is open now: www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-ap...
- Dream Lab presents: “Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books," a #DH workshop hosted at the University of Pennsylvania this May.
- I'm so pumped to be teaching this course, and I'm really grateful to @pricelab.bsky.social and @folgerlibrary.bsky.social for making these scholarships available. Let's hang out in May and talk about all the amazing ways you can combine book history and DH!
- 🚨 A scholarship opportunity for grad students interested in Dream Lab course "Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books" courtesy of the Folger Institute at @folgerlibrary.bsky.social
- [Not loaded yet]
- Glad this is still useful for folks! This is on my feature wishlist for the next iteration of Network Navigator, too (cc @zoeleblanc.bsky.social)
Everyone is laughing at me and @jrladd.com for wearing identical shades of millennial mustard. This is the inevitable outcome of grad school buddies #dh2024- [Not loaded yet]
- 🤝🏻 welcome to the club
