Comments on: Humanities Software Development: Data Mining and Writing Studies http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/02/humanities-software-development-data-mining-and-writing-studies/ April 24-25, 2014, at the University of Florida Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:17:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Aaron Beveridge http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/02/humanities-software-development-data-mining-and-writing-studies/#comment-2565 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:01:44 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=258#comment-2565 Sophia,

Laurie and other folks at UF Library and UF Research Computing have been helping us move into the beta test phase with our development. As it stands right now, MassMine must be used in a terminal running R software, BUT we are VERY close to finishing a basic options-based interface that calls upon a text template so that users don’t need to know how to operate a terminal in order to use MassMine. The good news is that UF Research Computing has setup a separate server for MassMine type projects, and therefore other potential UF collaborators (like yourself) will be able to data mine social media for their own specific projects. We will likely be ready to work with outside collaborators by the end of May–if not sooner.

I am open to taking MassMine’s THATCamp presentation in whatever direction suits the participants–and I’m sure Laurie has some good ideas too. One direction may be discussing new potential research projects that deploy MassMine for collecting new data. This would be useful for us as we continue to develop the software, because we hope to identify a group of interdisciplinary beta-testers with unique social media research questions that are different from ours.

Thanks!

]]> By: Laurie http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/02/humanities-software-development-data-mining-and-writing-studies/#comment-2563 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:14:41 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=258#comment-2563 Aaron and folks like me in UF’s Smathers Libraries are also discussing developing a collaborative grant proposal for next steps in technical development, training, assessment, further user-focused development, and more. I’m very excited to see and be part of this discussion!

]]> By: Sophia K. Acord http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/02/humanities-software-development-data-mining-and-writing-studies/#comment-2547 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:44:07 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=258#comment-2547 I think a lot of people, including myself, will be interested in learning how to use this. I wonder if this session could be held in the computer lab so that we could all take the software for a test-drive? Thanks!

]]> By: Overview for My Day of DH Activities (cross-posted from Day of DH, #DayofDH ) | Laurie N. Taylor http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/2014/04/02/humanities-software-development-data-mining-and-writing-studies/#comment-2522 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:42:09 +0000 http://gainesville2014.thatcamp.org/?p=258#comment-2522 […] minds for those activities.  Later today, I’m going to lunch with one of the researchers for MassMine, which is software and  tools for data mining by academics for academic needs. After that, I’m attending presentations by researchers in Cuban History and Cuban Studies in the […]

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