I’m currently taking a text mining class with Dr. Catherine Blake at GSLIS. Our first assignment was to pre-process 50,000 .txt files containing scientific abstracts and information about them, all formatted with whitespace and linebreaks. We had to extract the award organization, abstract ID number, and the abstract itself. In addition, we had to split [...]
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4 tips for a responsive, readable blog design
Some of you regulars (hi Mom) may have noticed a recent and long overdue facelift to this blog. It’s the Build WordPress theme by Pushkraj Dole, but with major structural and aesthetic modifications. I’ll explain what I did through some blog design tips for your CSS, but first, here’s my user interface design mantra: No [...]
The Setup
I’m always interested to hear how people organize their digital lives. What are your must-have devices, programs, or apps? How do you integrate your digital universe with your day-to-day, in-person activities? This post was inspired by “The Setup,” a blog post from Frank Chimero, one of my fave illustrator-cum-authors. In it, he writes about all [...]
The future of marginalia
The NYT clearly has eyes only for the Newberry The New York Times published an article on Monday entitled “Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins.” I got really excited about it, especially since G. Thomas Tanselle and Heather Jackson were quoted. But it turned out to be more of a list [...]
