Humanities Hackathon, Spring 2013
Investigating computational techniques from the sciences with humanities scholars, the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and the Center for the Humanities seek to uncover unexpected connections and intriguing patterns in music, visual art, literature and historical works. The Humanities Hackathon bridges the gap between seemingly unrelated disciplines and enriches discussions about transdisciplinary work.
Meetings consist of roughly one hour of presentations and discussion, followed by an hour of lab time, where participants can share projects, trade ideas, run programs, and receive support for software and techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring their own work to share and “hack” during the workshop.
Spring 2013 Meetings
Thursday, April 18, 3-5 PM
Researchers' Link, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (map)
Accessing the Discovery Building for WID events
Presenter: Lauren Michael, Research Computing Facilitator, Core Computational Technology
The Creativity of Digital Clouds — What Could You Do with 10,000 Computers at Your Fingertips?
What could you do with 10,000 computers at your fingertips?
April’s Hackathon demystifies cloud and high throughput computing, exploring how humanistic, tech-savvy organizations such as DreamWorks and MIT’s Media Lab have mobilized the extraordinary power of the cloud to bring fantastical worlds and ideas to life. This Hackathon shows how such technology might amplify your own research vision.
Registration requested, but not required. Register here.
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Thursday, March 14, 3-5 PM
3rd Floor Teaching Lab, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
*Resources mentioned in David Krakauer and Carrie Roy's presentations on March 14 can be found here.*
Presenters: Carrie Roy (Coordinator, Humanities Research Bridge); David Krakauer (Director, WID); Sara Guyer (Director, Center for the Humanities)
Viking in the WID: Raiding and Trading Approaches to Data
A look at collaborations between the Humanities Research Bridge and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Carrie Roy will present on several projects dealing with common basic challenges in working with complex data from the humanities to the sciences. Current tools and prototypes for data analysis and visualization will be featured. David Krakauer will also introduce open source software available for using computational techniques to approach humanities data.
Carrie Roy studied Visual and Environmental Studies at the undergraduate level at Harvard and received advanced degrees in the humanities at UW Madison. She now works as a post doctoral researcher and coordinator for a digital humanities initiative at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Humanities Research Bridge. The focus of her dissertation work explored the consistent manifestation of one concept, binding (in the sense of fixing, fastening, etc.), across Norse art, material culture/technology, mythology, narrative and social/legal terminology. Her recent art work explores transformations of data into objects, while her digital humanities research explores the opposite––turning complex works of human expression into numbers to enable new forms of analysis and comparison.
Registration requested, but not required. Register here.