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College Majors 2019 update
Every year, I run the numbers to see how college degrees are changing. The Department of Education released this summer the figures for …
Last updated on Aug 28, 2020
Majors
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Higher Education
EOIR Database adventures, part I: encoding
As part of the Asylum Lab project at NYU, I’ve started poking around the database of the Executive office of immigration review …
Ben Schmidt
Aug 25, 2020
Adventures in Data munging.
Ranking CS Graduate programs
Ranking Graduate Programs While I was choosing graduate programs back in 2005, I decided to come up with my own ranking system. I had …
Jul 28, 2020
Jeb! the quitter. Digital traces of private devotions.
A graph and story of Jeb! Bush’s failed religious devotions.
Last updated on Apr 12, 2020
Two Volumes: the lessons of Time on the Cross
(This is a talk from a January 2019 panel at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. You probably need to know, to …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
Historiography
Web Migration
Since 2010, I’ve done most of my web hosting the way that the Internet was built to facilitate: from a computer under the desk in …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
Moving (or rather, staying in place)
Some news: in September, I’ll be starting a new job as Director of Digital Humanities at NYU. There’s a wide variety of …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
A computational critique of a computational critique of computational critique.
Critical Inquiry has posted an article by Nan Da offering a critique of some subset of digital humanities that she calls …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
History Degrees since the Great Recession.
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
Interactive Scatterplots.
As part of the Creating Data project, I’ve been doing a lot of work lately with interactive scatterplots. The most interesting of …
Last updated on Dec 5, 2019
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