Thanks to the facilitated access to network analysis tools and the growing interest in many disciplines towards studying the relations structuring datasets, networks have become ubiquitous objects in science, in newspapers, on tech book covers, all over the Web, and to illustrate anything big data-related (hand in hand with word clouds.). Unfortunately, the resort to networks has reached a point where in… Continue reading Visualising Networks Part 1: A Critique
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Centrality measures as a signature of roles in Rousseau’s Les Confessions
Here is a blog-formatted version of the text which won the Best Paper Award at the first Texas Digital Humanities Conference (TxDHC) in Houston, this spring (2014). The work was done jointly with Prof. Frédéric Kaplan and Cyril Bornet. The text of Les Confessions is available in [French] or [English]. In this work, we investigate how a selection of… Continue reading Centrality measures as a signature of roles in Rousseau’s Les Confessions