Category Archives: Session: Make

Proposal for a session in which you offer to lead a small group in a hands-on collaborative working session with the aim of producing a document, piece of software, or other made thing.

TALK/MAKE – What are the odds: Big data meets political science and they go to the races

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Stephen Lindsay

‘What are the odds?’ (WATO) was an interdisciplinary collaboration between political scientists and human-computer interaction researchers at Swansea University to try to bring elements of big data to the world of political forecasting. The project used page scraping to gather … Continue reading →

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MAKE – Digitising a single day

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Adam Crymble

The theme of this event is ‘scale’. Lately in digital humanities, we’ve tended to think about big scales – big data, longue durée. But what about the very small? In this session, I propose that we work together to ‘digitise’ … Continue reading →

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