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Abstractualized: June 2014
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Sunday, June 8, 2014. Representing the War: Controversial Photos on the RuNet. This is the first post in a while and possibly the last post for a while. I have some other long-term digital projects in the works and probably more important, a book manuscript. In the meantime will use this space for smaller pieces as they come up. Case in point, a look at the site WarAlbum. I should add that some of these photos are quite graphic.). This photo is cont...
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Abstractualized: December 2013
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Thursday, December 19, 2013. Quick Hit: ASEEES Paper Topics. I'm hoping to have something a little more in depth about Soviet dissertations and/or quantifying the topics of plagiarized papers in Russia. In the meantime, I have a bit of data from the conferences of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES, the former AAASS), the main scholarly association for Russian and Eurasian studies. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Abstractualized: November 2014
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Wednesday, November 5, 2014. Guest Post: Deaf Space in Moscow. My friend Claire Shaw. Deaf Space in Moscow. For five minutes they run around like mad people. Can that be allowed? This small discovery, part a much bigger research project into the history of the Soviet deaf community, represented a jumping-off point for an exploration of the politics and practices of Soviet deaf space, which has culminated in an article forthcoming in Slavic Review.
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Abstractualized: Soviet and Post-Soviet History Dissertation Database
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Friday, November 1, 2013. Soviet and Post-Soviet History Dissertation Database. For the last month or so I have been putting together a database of the titles, authors and other data on history dissertations written in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet countries. I am now ready to make it available as a web application here. Here is some information about the sources and general contours of the information in the database:. A website that sells recen...
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Abstractualized: October 2013
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Sunday, October 13, 2013. Slavic-specific resources for digital scholarship. I've just had a lesson come out on automatic transliteration of Cyrillic sources in The Programming Historian. The bulk of my programming I do in a language called Python. Computer Science 101) and Code Academy. Has good interactive lessons for mastering syntax (not only for Python, by the way). The Programming Historian. Has lessons for Python and other tools geared toward...
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Abstractualized: Guest Post: Deaf Space in Moscow
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Wednesday, November 5, 2014. Guest Post: Deaf Space in Moscow. My friend Claire Shaw. Deaf Space in Moscow. For five minutes they run around like mad people. Can that be allowed? This small discovery, part a much bigger research project into the history of the Soviet deaf community, represented a jumping-off point for an exploration of the politics and practices of Soviet deaf space, which has culminated in an article forthcoming in Slavic Review.
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Abstractualized: September 2013
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Friday, September 27, 2013. Lately I have been thinking about using topic modeling for a project on commemoration of WWII using a large database of documents.* But along the lines of working with large databases of text, I have been impressed by Google's Ngrams. Graph using three-year smoothing, meaning that results are averaged over the surrounding. Each side. For example, 1937 is actually the average frequency from 1934-1940, inclusive. Sometimes ...
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Abstractualized: November 2013
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Friday, November 1, 2013. Soviet and Post-Soviet History Dissertation Database. For the last month or so I have been putting together a database of the titles, authors and other data on history dissertations written in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet countries. I am now ready to make it available as a web application here. Here is some information about the sources and general contours of the information in the database:. A website that sells recen...
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Abstractualized: Quick Hit: ASEEES Paper Topics
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Thursday, December 19, 2013. Quick Hit: ASEEES Paper Topics. I'm hoping to have something a little more in depth about Soviet dissertations and/or quantifying the topics of plagiarized papers in Russia. In the meantime, I have a bit of data from the conferences of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES, the former AAASS), the main scholarly association for Russian and Eurasian studies. View my complete profile.
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Abstractualized: July 2013
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A blog about the digital history of Russia and Eurasia. Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Gene Palma and Kevin Bacon's wife (a brief overview of network theory). In the next weeks I am going to post some data about professional networks in Soviet cinema. But before I do that- and while my oldish computer chokes on what is a relatively small data set- I thought I would write up some of the ideas that are informing this project. The main inspiration for my "Soviet Kevin Bacon" data is the excellent Oracle of Bacon.
