Joshua Ortiz Baco

A screenshot of the front page of the Data by Design website, featuring a bunch of charts in a jumble and one, of a mountain and measurements by Francisco José de Caldas, featured at the top right.

I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:

Promotional banner for a new book from ACRL titled 'Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians', edited by Whitney Kramer, Illiana Burgos, and Evan Muzzall. The left side displays the book title in multicolored bars, and the right side features the text against a dark background.

Our latest book - "Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians," edited by Whitney Kramer, Iliana Burgos, and Evan Muzzall - demonstrates how academic libraries are supporting TDM literacy through services, workflows, and professional development. https://bit.ly/428QlNC

These LGBTQ+ Archives Defy Erasure, One Memory at a Time In Latin America, LGBTQ+ history collections are a form of resistance. Grassroots projects are using the memories of community members to fight against systematic violence and demand justice.

In Latin America, LGBTQ+ history collections are a form of resistance. Grassroots projects are using the memories of community members to fight against systematic violence and demand justice. www.wired.com/story/lgbtq-...

Dr. Hayden has been such a transformative and inspiring Librarian for the past decade. If you haven't had the privilege to spend time with LC staff, you may not realize what a sea change she brought to our national library. One of the all-time greats. A huge loss for millions and millions.

If you'd like to see all the canceled NEH grants at variance with agency priorities that allegedly will fail to inspire your confidence in use of taxpayer funds, go explore impact.ach.org. Then contact your representatives about this outrageous cull.

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com

#humanities #neh #education #highered

More than well deserved recognition. You do so many amazing things!! Congrats

New year, same (or new!) reading habits:

💓Supporting indie bookshops & libraries
📚Getting so absorbed in a book, we lose all sense of time/place
🔎Discovering new authors
✅Making sure we’re reading a diverse range of authors/stories
❓Asking a bookseller for their recs

Uso de las colecciones del HathiTrust para el análisis de textos literarios en R Esta lección demustra los pasos para crear un conjunto de datos de textos usando la API de la biblioteca digital HathiTrust. Los datos obtenidos permitirán aplicar técnicas de minería textual pa...

¡Publicado recientemente!

Una nueva lección de @proghist.bsky.social por @jose-eduardo.bsky.social

https://doi.org/10.46430/phes0068

Gracias a @jenniferisasi.bsky.social y @rivaquiroga.bsky.social por sus críticas, y a @jgob.bsky.social por la edición.

Uso de las colecciones del HathiTrust para el análisis de textos literarios en R Esta lección demustra los pasos para crear un conjunto de datos de textos usando la API de la biblioteca digital HathiTrust. Los datos obtenidos permitirán aplicar técnicas de minería textual pa...

¡Publicado!

Una nueva lección de @ProgHist por @jose-eduardo.bsky.social

doi.org/10.46430/phe...

Gracias a @jenniferisasi.bsky.social y @rivaquiroga.bsky.social por sus críticas, y a @jgob.bsky.social por la edición.

Thank you for this! Mind adding me as well?

Back to the real world after spending a week at #DH2024 Still feeling grateful and inspired by the amazing people I got to see. So many Zoom friends and colleagues irl!

Would love one as well!

CariDiScho A Directory of Caribbean Digital Scholarship

Officially launching CariDiScho 2024. Many new things this round: dozens of new entries, whole new design, obituary section, new filters, keyboard and swipe support, and new feedback forms. Enjoy!

thecaribbeandigital.org/caridischo/

“Share Your Story”: Legacies of Online Collecting In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, we as historians knew that we had witnessed a major set of events and that we would not be able to fully ass

A thing I wrote is now out in the world: doi.org/10.1093/jahi...

It is a short review essay of how historians and archivists have been using the web since the '90s (US perspective), to collect personal histories & eye witness accounts following current events & reflecting on the past

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Keystone DH 2024 is almost here! Stay tuned for updates by following our socials.

Need an out of office reply that respectfully informs everyone that, “I already interacted with too many people at work for this week and will not be responding to your email until I reset next week. I like all of you, I just don’t have any thoughts left.”

Would love to borrow this! If it’s okay, how can I give you all credit?

This is wonderful! I’m glad I could help. There really isn’t a best way of writing: something that @jenniferisasi.bsky.social and @halperta.bsky.social taught me, too. The more options examples the better.

They aren’t hard limits but were helpful in knowing when to move on and when to delve more deeply. Also, an amazing sense of satisfaction to think I covered an idea or key aspect of my project rather than an abstract countdown of words.

Instead of sitting down to write “the thing”, her suggestion was: chunk sections with word counts. Every chapter of the diss was split into an introduction, historical context, case studies, etc. Then inside those were 500 words on relevant theoretical concepts, 350 on arguments, 250 on overview

My daily reminder of how AI, or really ML, still sucks at basic things: the automatic spam detection in gmail and outlook both cost me a sub-$200 Mac Pro I bid on even though the seller’s email is in my “safe senders” 🙄😤

4th year into the PhD I took a writing workshop type class with one of the co-chairs of my committee. She introduced me to chunking, reverse outlines, and free writing. It was the 1st time I heard that any academic writing was a process with steps and formulas, not just magic or brilliance 🤯

Given all the “data driven cost efficient” language in higher ed lately, I was wondering how big a bureaucracy would be needed to enforce 🎶everything old is new again 🎹censoring and intimidation tactics. This gives a pretty accurate figure: a lot.

There was no better way to debut at #MLA24 than a panel with @jenniferisasi.bsky.social, Tyeschia Thompson, and @walshbr.bsky.social
Great talks by too many people to tag here so I’ll just say thank you to the #DH folks!

Not sure I would call mine full blown DH. Maybe about a half but don’t mind sending it if it’ll be helpful.

Hey there little friend.

Pine-o-lantern! This I can get behind.

1930 Proclamation on the anniversary of the Lares Revolution by Albizu Campos.

🏴󠁵󠁳󠁰󠁲󠁿 🇵🇷 09/23/23 is the 155th Anniversary of the Declaration of the Puerto Rican Republic and Independence:
“The Revolution to establish the independence of the homeland has never failed…the time it takes to claim its sovereignty from foreign interventions does not matter.” Albizu Campos

Also, can we get a universally required graduate course or mandatory (free) certification in “project management for higher ed and GLAMs”. Everyone’s lives in those spaces would be immediately improved.