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New Website with Quarto

quarto
I have just been through the effort of switching my academic website over from blogdown — an interface between RMarkdown and Hugo Academic — to a Quarto website.
Jun 20, 2024
Joshua Wilson Black

New Publication: Creating Specialised Corpora from Digitized Historical Newspaper Archives

history of philosophy
digital humanities
Notice of new publication in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
Jan 26, 2023
Joshua Wilson Black

Model Check and Significance Testing for Vowel Space GAMMs

GAMMs
vowels
sociolinguistics
Checking GAMM models, significance tests, and visualisation for by-vowel models.
Aug 30, 2022
Joshua Wilson Black

Organising Shareable R Projects

Some advice for organising code for projects in linguistics using RStudio.
linguistics
sociolinguistics
data science
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 here package.
Aug 1, 2022
Joshua Wilson Black

A 3D PCA Visualisation with Plotly

data science
vowels
pca
plotly
Attempts to produce an illustrative example of PCA using formant data and Plotly via R.
Jul 19, 2022
Joshua Wilson Black

Visualising Vowel Space Change with GAMs

A tidyverse Approach
GAMMs
vowels
sociolinguistics
A tutorial on visualising change in the vowel space of monopthongs using GAMs
Jun 29, 2022
Joshua Wilson Black

Peirce on Metaphysics and Common Sense Belief

philosophy
Peirce
A précis of my contribution to Pragmatic Reason.
Jun 28, 2022
Joshua Wilson Black
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