I recently transitioned from my study of the many reasons why the voice of DC taxi drivers is largely absent from online discussions into a study of the powerful voice of the Kenyan people in shaping… more →
Free Range Researchwrote 1 day ago: I’m very pleased to announce the release of qdap 0.2.2 This is the third installment of the qd … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Today is Mother’s Day, and I don’t think I could miss the opportunity to post about one … more →
wrote 1 week ago: The leopard sneaks his way along many of the books in Torrey. He’s hard to spot because he sho … more →
wrote 1 week ago: In my last two posts I’ve discussed four of the biggest beasts in Torrey. In my first post I d … more →
wrote 1 week ago: In my last post, I started a discussion about the beasts in Torrey. While there are political beasts … more →
wrote 1 week ago: This script will read all the text files in a directory and output a list of all the words and how m … more →
wrote 1 week ago: The Torrey Cannon is full of beasts of many different kinds. Some are political structures the size … more →
wrote 1 week ago: The Obama administration’s open data mandate announced on Thursday was made all the better by … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: I recently transitioned from my study of the many reasons why the voice of DC taxi drivers is largel … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: I recently joined Instagram (I’m late, I know). I joined because my daughter wanted to, becaus … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Friendship. Everyone needs it, but not everyone has it, much less good friendship. Why is friendship … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Bishops, presbyters, deacons. To many of us these words are associated with the Roman Catholic Churc … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Several posts ago I considered the idea of taking an arbitrary document and mapping its content by v … more →
wrote 1 month ago: … but not lovely enough. A few days ago I asked my friends on Facebook which Nathaniel Hawthor … more →
wrote 1 month ago: No blog on the Torrey curriculum would be complete without a look at Plato. While I don’t clai … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The question I am asking today is, how well can we predict a word’s part of speech based only … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Every text search solution is as powerful as the text analysis capabilities it offers. Lucene is suc … more →
wrote 1 month ago: So, I had this idea to take a journal article and visualize the associations among its words. I focu … more →
wrote 1 month ago: This semester I have been drawing on more digital teaching/learning tools, as I was fortunate enough … more →