Joshua Wilson Black
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New Publication: Creating Specialised Corpora from Digitized Historical Newspaper Archives
One of the promises of digital humanities for the ‘historical sciences’ is that we’ll be able to, in Tim Hitchcock’s words, shift from ‘piles of books’ to ‘maps of meaning’. That is, we’ll be able to produce high level representations of phenomena across large collections of text.
Last updated on Jan 26, 2023
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Model Check and Significance Testing for Vowel Space GAMMs
Table of Contents Introduction Model Fit (Again) Using gam.check Significance Testing P-Values for By-Factor Smooths from the Model Summary Plotting Significance of By-Factor Smooths in Vowel Space P-Values for Difference Smooths Pointwise Significance of Difference Smooths Conclusion Introduction In a previous post, I set out a workflow for fitting and visualising generalised additive mixed models for F1 and F2 of a series of vowels and using these to visualise change over an entire vowel space.
Last updated on Aug 30, 2022
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Organising Shareable R Projects
There is plenty of advice out there for organising projects using R and RStudio. This post gathers together the advice I’ve found useful, especially with respect to sharing code and data between researchers. I run through directory stucture, the use of R project files, and the
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Last updated on Aug 1, 2022
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A 3D PCA Visualisation with Plotly
Attempts to produce an illustrative example of PCA using formant data and Plotly via R.
Last updated on Jul 19, 2022
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Visualising Vowel Space Change with GAMs
This tutorial is now available at LingMethodsHub. If you use the tutorial, please cite the version there. Introduction Multiple recent projects at NZILBB have used Generalised Mixed Models (GAMMs) to investigate changes in vowel spaces both across multiples speakers and within single speakers.
Last updated on Jun 29, 2022
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Peirce on Metaphysics and Common Sense Belief
A volume in honour of Christopher Hookway is currently in the works edited by Robert Talisse, Paniel Reyes Cárdenas, and Daniel Herbert. I’ve contributed a piece on Chris’s account of Peirce’s metaphysics, especially as it appeals to ‘common sense’.
Last updated on Jun 28, 2022
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