Not your father's rumor mill

As someone interested in having a real job someday soon, I think these are the bee's knees:

• American and Comparative Jobs
• International Relations Rumor Mill
• Political theory and public law job market

Thanks to Profesora Abstraida for the tip.

Tags: academic_employment

Lessig on Google Book

Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig has posted a fascinating discussion on YouTube. Very well-reasoned, recommended for anyone interested in copyright and online media. Fascinating.

An intro to content analysis

Okay, I know I should be working on my concluding chapter, and I know that content analysis doesn't necessarily require computing tools, but this is a great resource.

Several folks in the English Department at Colo State have put together a very solid Overview of Content Analysis, including a couple of examples, a glossary, and an annotated bibliography.

It's suitable for a teaching module, or for others just getting started with these approaches.

Really, kudos to Busch et. al. Great job!

Tags: content analysis

Visualizing information

I'm still a week or so away from finishing the diss, but I ran across something that really impressed me, and thought I'd pass it along. Also, I just completed my introductory chapter, and may be feeling a bit cocky.

Anyway.

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has an Information Visualization project that is truly fascinating. The problem is that for many, many fields there is now more digital information available than a single human can meaningfully process. Visually representing patterns found in text, images, and audio filters out "insignificant" variation, allowing us to deal with greater data volumes.

I recommend checking out their published papers.

Well, back to it. See you in a couple weeks.

Tags: text mining, visualization