DHHpC12 @ICHASS

9:00am

Marshall Scott Poole, Director of ICHASS

GroupScope: A Multimodal System for the Study of Large Group Dynamics

Interested in collective action, tracking emergence service providers (live world tracking)...want to track large groups (hundreds...)

GroupScope: an envionment that will develop technologies to understand social interactions with a fidelity that enables breakthrough social research. 

Claims that he hopes the computer will do the drudgery and leave him to do the fun stuff; however, as the group of us work on coding the agenda...that is still requiring some of the drudgery (and the agenda is a short text!)

 Learning about HathiTrust (large text archive/corpus)

10:00am

Open Lab to work and collaborate.

11:40am Lunch

1:00pm Advanced Visualization 3D Lab

1:45pm: XSEDE (funding/support), Alan Craig

eXtreme Science & Engineering Discovery Environment

provide service to supercomputing & data analysis systems

75 consultants

currently 1290 projects

4 of 1290 are from the humanities

Don't define your project based on what your machine can handle. 

2:10pm: Conclusion

10 Things to Consider...

How to work in computational humanities or a collection of irresponsible metaphors

*Think like a fountain, not like a pond

*Knowthe branches of CS you want to work with...homework is good

*Think big, then work backwards...

*...Towards a proof of concept that can get you a publication or a grant

*You are a bat in a cave. Use your sonar.

*Your technical and scientific colleagues will learn from you

*Sometimes alliances of talented people make great research ideas, instead of great research ideas making alliances of talented people

*You are important specifically because you do not see everything as quantitative data

*But understanding which tiny pieces (or what kinds) of quantitative data (or descrete tasks) may fuel your broader analysis is crucial.

*Tech for discovery, not just implementation.  

*The bridging of low level data features to high level semantic concepts is not just a challenge facing DH; it is one of the signal challenges of the information age. 

Working with networking applications. 

Automap: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/automap/index.php

ORA: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/ora/index.php

With the free time at the end of the day I'm trying to build a map with a heavily edited version of the workshop agenda. Once I have that analysis and visual, I'm hoping to do the same with the tweets generated through the conference and compare/contrast results. I'm even betting there is a way to combine the two texts...but that is way above my beginner pay grade.  

Abstract: This paper discusses aspects of a collaborative investigation of  embodied computing and personal manufacturing. We describe the  NeuroMaker 1.0, an artwork that playfully implements the concept of  “translating of the designer’s ideas into a product”. Visitors to the installation were invited to use their own EEG to fabricate personalized physical objects. While primarily intended to provoke thought about the process of creativity, we also demonstrated that, with the right team, radical new interfaces are well within the reach.

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