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Making Sense of Teaching Computer Science Tools to Linguists
As a part of the PhD program, I am required to design and defend two different courses. One intended for undergraduate students and another one for grads. I don’t know yet if both can be for graduate...
View ArticleMore ideas on the Virtual Cultural Laboratory
These days, after reading the article about the VCL, A Virtual Laboratory for the Study of History and Cultural Dynamics (Juan Luis Suárez and Fernando Sancho, 2011) for our first session of the...
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The experience of the PyCon Canada 2012 #PyConCa
Well, so finally the date arrived and I had to go to Toronto for giving a talk about Graph Databases in Python. Since the beginning of the event I could feel the energy and good vibrations of the...
View ArticleWhat if I decide to teach a MOOC? Well, then I should learn some Python :)
Well, I think that today everybody knows what is MOOC. MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. You may heard about the term first from Stanford University, and then by Udacity, Coursera, edX, or...
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Some notes about the new features of neo4j-rest-client
This is the first time I write in technical terms and about an own development. But first, a bit of history. Back to December 2009, I met Neo4j database. Neo4j was one of the first graph databases with...
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Now I have a MOOC platform, what are the physical stuff I need?
It’s been a while since I wrote my last MOOC-related post. But now, after the crazy days of starting the first MOOC class in which I have the honour to participate in, I can write a bit about the...
View ArticleThe experience of the FirefoxOS Apps Day in Toronto #firefoxos
The last Saturday was the FirefoxOS Apps Day. It’s been a world wide event, from Argentina to Roumania, from Spain or Japan. Here en Canada there were two cities hosting the event, Vancouver and...
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Creating a Globe of Data (PH2)
Lesson Goals This is a lesson designed for intermediate users, although beginner users should be able to follow along. In this lesson we will cover the next main topics: Use of Python to produce a...
View ArticleRío and Reykjavik
Recently, a paper which I was collaborating for, was accepted to Digital Humanities 2013, to be hosted in Lincoln, Nebraska. Our paper is titled “Not Exactly Prima Facie: Understanding the...
View ArticleThinking about teaching web development to humanists
Now that my first course on computer tools for linguists is on its way (I already have almost half of the lessons designed), it is time to think about the next one. The CulturePlex laboratory is, so...
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Computer Tools for Linguists
My last blog entry was about a new course I would like to design and teach. But some of you were thinking, “hey, what happened to the other course, the one about linguists?” And you are right. No one...
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DH vs. DATA
Well, it is that time of the year again, so I might start writing again on a bi-weekly basis The summer was good: I was on DH2013 and got a lot of good feedback on my project about the representation...
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Tha amazing GraphConnect and Drivers Hackathon
Back in a morning of september I got an e-mail. At a first glance the e-mail seemed to me like it was written to a different person. The sender was Emil Efren, one of the guys behind Neo4j, and he was...
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The second course that I have to design
I was lurking co-workers’ blog posts when I realized that I had to pick a topic for my second course as requirement for the program. This time the course can be designed for the graduate level (the...
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Calculating an average face
Example of average face In the comings and goings of my thesis, now that I am certain that my main topic was way too big (my supervisor liked it but he says that it was more like a whole research...
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