Isn’t it frustrating when you want to sing along to your favorite song but you can’t because Youtube conveniently doesn’t have a lyric video for it? Well, how about DIY-ing and writing your own transcriptions to your favorite song? You… Continue Reading
Big Data generally refers to extremely large datasets that require demanding computational analysis to reveal patterns and trends, such as the map below generated from the data in millions of Twitter posts. We are producing reams of this data in the 21st… Continue Reading
The Salem Witch Trials Project is a digital database of different documents, including court orders, letters, and maps, in relation to The Salem Witch Trials. During 1692 and 1693, a frenzy of fear regarding witchcraft inflicted the town of Salem; trials were… Continue Reading
When I was in high school, I did some work transcribing unpublished sonnets of Fernando Pessoa, a Portuguese poet who left behind a profusion of notebooks, papers, letters, and other manuscripts covered in his hard-to-read handwriting. Naturally, then, I was drawn… Continue Reading
