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

Overview

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, Analysing Humanities Data: An Introduction to Knowledge-Based Computing with the Wolfram Language. This course provides an example-led 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. The course assumes no prior knowledge of any programming language. 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 in the course will be drawn from William Turkels open-access textbook, Digital Research Methods with Mathematica.

Solicitation for Speakers

We're looking for one or two experienced WL users who would be interested in coming to Oxford between July 4 and 8 (at our expense, naturally) to give a roughly 1-hour to 3/4 of an hour long presentation/talk on some aspect of the Wolfram Language relevant to the humanities. This need not be text related. Potential topics for your presentation might include geodata & geocomputation, network analysis, general graphing & plotting, time series analysis, an intro to machine learning, sound analysis & sonification, using MMA with R-Link, etc.

Meet the Instructors and Course Context

Martin (who is a data scientist for Oxford University IT Services, and previously worked as a consultant for Wolfram Research) will be teaching the course. My research background is in the humanities (I'm the digital project manager for ) and I am still a WL beginner, so I'm collaborating with Martin to make our examples and data as relevant as possible to our predominantly "newbie" humanities/social sciences audience.

Logistics and Benefits

If you're interested, please let us know sooner rather than later as we'd like to firm up the syllabus soon. We can host you for one or two nights in Oxford (including travel) if you'd like to give one presentation, or for as long as 5 days if you'd like to stay longer and give two talks (or perhaps even assist us with running the class itself).

Additional Context

Although we didn't plan this, this is a particularly auspicious time to be learning the WL, with lots of new resources available from WR and elsewhere, and huge potential for applying it in the humanities.

Contact and Communications

If you're interested or curious to learn more, please reach out. For example, Arno Bosse can be reached at .

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