Thoughts on cultural analytics, data science, and digital humanities
ImageSpace uses AI to turn any image collection into an interactive scatter plot. OpenAI's CLIP vision model generates embeddings, t-SNE arranges them by visual similarity, and HDBSCAN clusters them automatically—all viewable in the browser with no backend required.
tidylens brings validated image and video analysis algorithms into the R tidyverse ecosystem, making computational visual culture research accessible to humanities scholars.
Building a new website theme with Astro and AI tools. Turns out modern web development isn't as scary as I thought.
My new book 'Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach' published by SpringerLink bridges humanities and computational methods.
Announcement of two new published articles: one on Topps WWE trading cards and another on visualizing urban demographic data.