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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Leslie Harris

Leslie Harris

Torn Apart / Separados - 0 views

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    This is the actual interactive map.
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    This is the actual interactive map of ICE detention facilities and juvenile detention centers in the U.S. Clicking on a bubble reveals an aerial photo of each facility.
Leslie Harris

When digital humanities meets activism - 0 views

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    Map of ICE facilities and juvenile detention centers.
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    A "digital scholarship" map of ICE facilities and juvenile detention centers in the U.S. - digital humanities and social action.
Leslie Harris

'Heat Maps' Give Michigan State a New View of Campus Climate - 0 views

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    Visualizations of survey responses show where students feel they belong, or don't Premium content for subscribers.
Leslie Harris

The Most Detailed Map of Gay Marriage in America - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Novel use of tax records gives researchers a clearer look at the demographics of same-sex married couples than was previously possible.
Leslie Harris

Is It Time To Ban Computers From Classrooms? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - 0 views

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    A new paper delivers a clear verdict on computers in the classroom - but a variety of important questions remain open, like how they interfere with student learning, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
Leslie Harris

When Classical Musicians Go Digital - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Players and scholars are turning to computer tablets and leaving paper scores behind.
Leslie Harris

Money, Race and Success: How Your School District Compares - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Interesting infographics demonstrating that sixth graders in the richest school districts are four grade levels ahead of children in the poorest districts.
Leslie Harris

Ph.D.s Embrace Alternative Dissertations. The Job Market May Not. - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

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    More colleges are allowing dissertations to take digital or other nontraditional forms, but students need to prepare for the career consequences.
Leslie Harris

Stanford Lit Lab Trains Neural Network To Identify Suspense in Stories -- Campus Techno... - 0 views

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    Then I heard the thunder crash, and I saw a dark shadow on the wall. My heart began to pound, as . . . . This brief article describes "digital humanities" research that allows a computer to identify suspenseful moments in literary stories.
Leslie Harris

Teens do better in science when they know Einstein and Curie also struggled - Quartz - 0 views

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    Apparently learning that science does not always come naturally-even to geniuses-helps children succeed. Students who learned that great scientists struggled, both personally and intellectually, outperformed those who learned only of the scientists' great achievements, new research shows. Ninth- and 10th-grade students in low-performing New York City schools who read about Albert Einstein's struggles, including multiple school changes...
Leslie Harris

Digital Map of the Roman Empire - 0 views

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    This map of the Roman Empire allows you to zoom in and out to search for cities and other sites during the Roman Empire.
Leslie Harris

Google Cultural Institute Puts Us All Onstage - The New York Times - 0 views

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    This article describes the Google Cultural Institute, which provides immersive views of artistic performances.
Leslie Harris

Are College Lectures Unfair? - The New York Times - 0 views

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    This article summarizes various studies that show that active learning if more effective than the traditional lecture, particularly for women and students of color.
Leslie Harris

Mother tongues - www.lucasinfografia.com - 0 views

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    Amazing infographic depicting where the top 23 world languages are spoken and how many people speak those languages.
Leslie Harris

Parsing Ronald Reagan's Words for Early Signs of Alzheimer's - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Interesting article about an analysis of Ronald Reagan's news conferences in an attempt to determine early signs of dementia. The "digital humanities" aspect is that the same linguistic analysis has been use to study word use patterns by novelists.
Leslie Harris

Map of 73 Years of Lynchings - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    An effective but somewhat disheartening use of GIS to map the frequency of lynchings in the Southern U.S. by county from 1877 to 1950.
Leslie Harris

How Nonemployed Americans Spend Their Weekdays: Men vs. Women - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    This article discusses how unemployed men and women spend their time during a typical day. What's most interesting is how the data is represented visually.
Leslie Harris

When the Archive Won't Yield Its Secrets - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Interesting article about the difficulty of working with archives, especially when their contents or structures don't match research questions. This applies mostly to paper archives, although the issue of digital archives is discussed at the end as well. The article is primarily a summary of presentations at a conference.
Leslie Harris

For Big-Data Scientists, 'Janitor Work' Is Key Hurdle to Insights - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    New York Times article about some of the challenges of "big data" analysis - particularly the data cleanup needed to make useful inferences.
Leslie Harris

Penn State One Button Studios Used 4,500 Times Annually - 2 views

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    This article describes the widespread use of the two "one-button" video recording studios at Penn State.
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