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`nzilbb.vowels` 0.3.1

linguistics

vowels

pca

The nzilbb.vowels R package has just been released to CRAN. This is the first release on CRAN and contains a few modifications from the version which was available on GitHub…

Joshua Wilson Black

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Joshua Wilson Black

Peirce on Metaphysics and Common Sense Belief

philosophy

Peirce

A précis of my contribution to Pragmatic Reason.

Joshua Wilson Black