Melanie Walsh

@mellymeldubs.bsky.social

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Asst Prof @ University of Washington iSchool

Data science, digital humanities, cultural analytics, books, social media

They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court

https://melaniewalsh.org/

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Just finished teaching a course at the Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute on text classification with large language models. It’s for anybody, but oriented towards humanists. We identify whether Jeopardy questions reference literature! Course materials here: github.com/erikfredner/...

GitHub - erikfredner/tap-2024: Notebooks for 2024 Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute course on text classification with LLMsgithub.com Notebooks for 2024 Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute course on text classification with LLMs - erikfredner/tap-2024

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Are you considering submitting to CHR 2024, but need a bit more time? Well you can, as long as you an *initial* submission by today 7/11 (AoE). *Existing* submissions can be updated until 7/15 (AoE). 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

Computational Humanities Research 20242024.computational-humanities-research.org

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If you study TikTok, have a look at my newly updated Python package Pyktok--I just added a few features you might find useful github.com/dfreelon/pyk...

GitHub - dfreelon/pyktok: A simple module to collect video, text, and metadata from Tiktok.github.com A simple module to collect video, text, and metadata from Tiktok. - dfreelon/pyktok

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Today, the NYT announced that they will be publishing their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century in batches from July 8-12. Curious what people who study contemporary literature would bet on making the list before it's published. My bets below…  www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/b... 1/7

Sign Up to Learn the Best Books of the 21st Centurywww.nytimes.com Starting on July 8, we’ll unveil a list of 100. Make sure you’re among the first to find out.

Poetry is weirdly prominent in LLM conversations. But what do models really "know" about poetry? We tested how well LLMs can recognize 20+ poetic forms in English & probed major pretraining datasets to see which poems might be memorized. New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18906

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A few days into writing a report on machine learning and cultural data for the Library of Congress, I came back with a question: "Can it be a comic?" Two years and many iterations later, here's "A Search for the Heart": libraryofcongress.github.io/a-search-for...

A Search for the Heart: Digital collections, machine learning and legacies of carelibraryofcongress.github.io Machine learning models are hungry for content from libraries and cultural insitutions. How can we imagine ways these technologies might help people and communities, while also being mindful of risks ...

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If you find an out of copyright book on Google Books, that they have a scan of but aren't making fully available, use this form to ask them to release it: support.google.com/websearch/an... It's simple, gets results, and enriches the #PublicDomain

It worked (and in record time)! books.google.com.ph/books?id=e9E...

Catalogue of Manuscripts in European Languages Belonging to the Library of the India Office ...: pt.I. The Orme collection, by S.C. Hill. 1916. pt.II. Minor collections and miscellaneous manuscripts, ...books.google.com.ph

Your Google Books inquiry - Google Search Helpsupport.google.com

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Thanks to support from the NEH, @ach.bsky.social & @rrchnm.bsky.social are giving out $2000 bursaries to support attendance at the DH 2024 conference (August 5-9 in Arlington, VA). Eligibility details in thread. Apply by July 1st! Please share widely! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

DH 2024 Bursariesdocs.google.com Deadline for Applications: July 1, 2024 Notification by July 10, 2024 With the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and...

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What do you do when your data has gaps & unknowns? In “Missing Data, Speculative Reading” @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and I delve into Shakespeare & Company datasets to estimate & speculatively fill in gaps. modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts... culturalanalytics.org/article/1169...

Missing Data, Speculative Reading | Modernism / Modernity Print+modernismmodernity.org Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company, once a hub for the Lost Generation, has become iconic in popular culture.[1] The continued cultural prominence of the bookshop and lending library is no accident. Beach knew that publishing James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) would make Shakespeare and Company famous. Her memoir, published in 1959, is an exercise in name-dropping. She

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Viet Thanh Nguyen on the relationship between literary best-of lists, literary merit, and exclusion: wapo.st/3RcD4xQ (Including a shout-out to work by @alexandermanshel.bsky.social and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social!)

How the first National Book Awards reflected 1950s Americawapo.st In the start of a new series reflecting on 75 years of the awards, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about how societies and juries read and recognize literature

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c19datacollective.com/data/ DATASET ALERT. First dataset accepted at 19thC Data Collective. Have some 19thC Data? Submit! Congrats @micahbateman.bsky.social ! (Please post on other place, I'm not allowed back there until my book is in)

Nineteenth-Century Data Collectivec19datacollective.com The Nineteenth-Century Data Collective peer-reviews and houses literary or cultural data, circa 1800-1900, on an open-access website.

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Loved chatting with Kate Dwyer about the debut novel for ESQUIRE! www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Why Are Debut Novels Failing to Launch?www.esquire.com For first-time writers, it’s harder than ever to break out. That poses an existential crisis for publishing—and disturbing limits on your access to exciting new voices.

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A ton of folks at the CDH & incredible graduate students in Princeton English have worked for SO LONG on this project -- please read & share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/world... Especially excited about @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and @suttonkoeser.bsky.social's article.

The World of Shakespeare and Company | Modernism / Modernity Print+modernismmodernity.org This cluster is co-published in collaboration with The Journal of Cultural Analytics. I What’s left to learn about Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris? The story of Shakespeare and Company has been told and retold—by Beach herself in Shakespeare and Company (1959) and The Letters of Sylvia Beach (2010), by Noël Riley Fitch in

I'm super proud of this new essay that I got to work on with my Cornell lab crew! We compare the reading habits of early 1900s Shakespeare & Co members and contemporary Goodreads users. Who stayed popular? Who faded into obscurity? And what else can we learn? modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

The Afterlives of Shakespeare and Company in Online Social Readership | Modernism / Modernity Print+modernismmodernity.org The growth of social reading platforms such as Goodreads and LibraryThing enables us to analyze reading activity at very large scale and in remarkable detail. But twenty-first century systems give us a perspective only on contemporary readers. Meanwhile, the digitization of the lending library records of Shakespeare and Company (SC) provides a window into the reading activity

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More new work! "Data Feminism for AI," with @kanarinka.bsky.social, which reflects our current thinking about how and why data feminism remains deeply relevant for AI research: arxiv.org/abs/2405.01286

Data Feminism for AIarxiv.org This paper presents a set of intersectional feminist principles for conducting equitable, ethical, and sustainable AI research. In Data Feminism (2020), we offered seven principles for examining...

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We're expecting a large set of our public records (ie emails) to be published in the coming days as part of an effort to smear folks working to understand & address online disinformation. We're setting up a site to help provide context. Here's the landing page: faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/PRR-...

CIP Public Records FAQfaculty.washington.edu Providing context for public records requests targeting the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public.

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I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:

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So impressed by @laurenfklein.bsky.social et al's Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization dataxdesign.io - ft Beothuk maps, W.E.B. Du Bois's "data portraits," Wm Playfair's time-series charts, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's chronological grids, etc. It's been 🤩 to watch this emerge!

Data by Designdataxdesign.io An interactive history of data visualization 1786-1900.

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CFP: October 2025 Special Issue - "Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Humanities" Guest editors: Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social (HKU) & Miguel Escobar Varela @miguelescobar @miguelev.bsky.social (NUS)

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Now that the semester’s wound up, I wanted to share the readings Giulia Taurino and I and the students in our seminar on Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science put together. We had a great time, they wrote some good papers, and hopefully this will be useful. github.com/dasmiq/cs718...

GitHub - dasmiq/cs7180-sp2024: Special Topics in AI: Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Sciencegithub.com Special Topics in AI: Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science - dasmiq/cs7180-sp2024

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PhD position Computational Approaches to Narrative in Argumentation www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... #nlproc #nlp #computationalhumanities @tedunderwood.me @andrewpiper.bsky.social @mellymeldubs.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @dmimno.bsky.social @dbamman.bsky.social @lucy3.bsky.social

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The Nordic Noir boom is among the most significant global literary phenomena of the 21st century. Very happy, then, to publish "The Nordic Noir in Translation Database, 2000-2020" by Karl Berglund, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King at the Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/the-nordic-n...

The Nordic Noir in Translation Database 2000–2020 - Post45 Data Collectivedata.post45.org Authors: Karl Berglund, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King This dataset contains bibliographic records of (in theory) all translations of Nordic crime fiction for adults, written in any of the five main Nor...

In other exciting event news, we're also hosting an "AI, Art, and Copyright" roundtable on May 2nd! Featuring Kelly McKernan, Kat Walsh, Takiyah Ward, and Geoff Turnovsky. Co-sponsored by the Simpson Center, Tech Policy Lab, & Society + Technology

I'm very excited that @tedunderwood.me will be giving a virtual talk, "How Digital Humanists Are Contending with Deep Learning," next Monday at 12:30pm Pacific! Hosted by @uwischool.bsky.social Email me for the Zoom link if you'd like to join!

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Proud to have been part of the team that computationally analyzed the New York Times' biased coverage of Israel and Palestine. This is part of a broader effort by Writers Against the War On Gaza, who released today a tour-de-force exposé of NYT: newyorkwarcrimes.com

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Twelve permanent jobs in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College, London. 👀

Simon Tanner on LinkedIn: Job Klaxon!!! 12 permanent jobs in the Department of Digital Humanities at…www.linkedin.com Job Klaxon!!! 12 permanent jobs in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. A full dozen new jobs, so read down the whole list to find…

On the note of summer research, we're launching the 2nd Humanities Data Science Summer Institute this June and July. But it's only open to UW faculty and students. However, if you're at UW, consider applying! The deadline is tonight (Feb 23) humanitiesdatalab.ds.lib.uw.edu/opportunities/

Students are always asking me about summer research opportunities, so I wanted to share what looks like an ✨amazing✨ data science summer program at Stanford: - 8 weeks research w/ faculty - $6000 stipend - priority to non-R1 & underrepresented students datascience.stanford.edu/education/ed...

The iSchool at UW is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Software Development and Design. I love teaching and working at the iSchool 🏔️🦭🏙️ and I'm happy to answer any questions. Preference will be given to candidates who apply by March 1st ischool.uw.edu/about/jobs/f...

🚨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!🚨 We have new code notebooks for using LLMs to: - measure document similarity - classify texts with zero-shot prompting We explore narrative vs non-narrative texts, historical poetry, ChatGPT poetry, & book reviews. Tutorial effort led by Greg Yauney!