Call for talks at Oxford's Digital Humanities Summer School Oxford

Call for talks at Oxford's Digital Humanities Summer School Oxford

Martin Hadley and I are organizing a 5 day Wolfram Language workshop at Oxford's Digital Humanities Summer School. The course, titled Analysing Humanities Data: An Introduction to Knowledge-Based Computing with the Wolfram Language, will provide a comprehensive introduction to techniques for analysing a wide range of humanities data with the Wolfram Language, from text analysis, image processing, and visualization, to network analysis, time related and geographic computation, and machine learning. Participants will learn the concepts needed to import, manipulate, and analyse humanities data using both natural language input and scripted interfaces to the Wolfram Language and to share their data and applications in the cloud. Part of the material will be drawn from William Turkel's open access textbook, Digital Research Methods with Mathematica.

We are looking for one or two experienced Wolfram Language users who would be interested in traveling to Oxford between July 4th and 8th (at our expense) to give a 3/4 to 1 hour presentation on a Wolfram Language topic relevant to the humanities. Potential topics include geodata & geocomputation, network analysis, general graphing & plotting, time series analysis, an introduction to machine learning, sound analysis & sonification, and using Mathematica with R Link, among others.

Martin (data scientist for Oxford University IT Services, former consultant for Wolfram Research) will be teaching the course. I am a humanities project manager; I am still a Wolfram Language beginner, so I am collaborating with Martin to keep the material accessible to our predominantly 'newbie' humanities and social science audience.

Interested candidates should let us know soon, as we plan to firm up the syllabus. We can host you for one or two nights (including travel) if you wish to give one presentation, or for up to five days if you want to give two talks or assist with running the class.

The five day workshop will be organised as follows:

• Day 1: Wolfram Language fundamentals
• Day 2: Texts, Graphs & Networks
• Day 3: Image Processing, Sound Analysis & Machine Learning
• Day 4: Semantic import, geographic visualization & geo computing
• Day 5: Saving & sharing applications and data in the cloud

Each special topic day will begin with a session introducing the relevant Wolfram Language functions and programming patterns, followed by an opportunity for assisted, hands on practice exercises. If you or someone you know is looking for an extended, beginner/intermediate level introduction to the Wolfram Language, this workshop may be worth considering even if your research interests lie outside the humanities.

Please note that we can only support presenters based in the UK or continental Europe; travel funding is limited to candidates within these regions.