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mcburton / gist:1368632
Created November 15, 2011 22:49
THINGS
"Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the
human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories
into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things
weaker than our words for them.
...
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent
us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi
stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that
coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of
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mcburton / gist:1400715
Created November 28, 2011 15:08
a git hub
Wayne: What is it?
Stacy: It's a GIT hub.
Wayne: A GIT hub... a GIT hub. Shyeah, Right! I don't even own
A GIT, let alone many GITs that would necessitate an entire hub.
What am I gonna do... with a GIT hub?
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mcburton / index.html
Created September 13, 2012 18:29
My D3 Template
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
</style>
<body>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/2.10.0/d3.v2.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.4.2/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
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mcburton / template.md
Created November 26, 2012 17:38
Digital Humanities Project 1-Pager Template

Template for a DH project one-pager

A template for a “1 pager” or short description of a digital humanities project. Based on the case study descriptions from the book Digital_Humanities.

Title & Abstract

  • Main title & subtitle
  • 2 to 3 sentence abstract

Introduction (3-5 paragraphs)

  • Introduce the problem area.
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mcburton / TPB.AFK.nfo
Last active December 12, 2015 08:28
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mcburton / stats_calculations.ipynb
Last active December 18, 2015 10:39
This is a translation of Kirby Sheddon's tutorial Elementary statistical calculations and simulations (http://dept.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~kshedden/Python-Workshop/stats_calculations.html) from the ARC/CSCAR workshop from June 10-14th 2013 at the University of Michigan. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce data management and and analysis wi…
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mcburton / trust.md
Last active December 20, 2015 23:18
some blather on Trust

Some blather on Trust & Method

Link to this post on my blog.

So this turned into a some kinda bloggy post thing. I can't vouch for any the ideas in here because I'm hopped up on caffeine and ibuprofen.

Garfinkel's classic "trust" paper which discusses how sociologists and practically engage trust as something observable and reportable. It is fundamentally a discussion about method, and how formal analytic/theory, cannot make render visible issues of trust. I think this speaks directly to Alan's point that humanities have no methods for engaging trust: [Garfinkel, H. (1963), 'A Conception of, and Experiments with 'Trust' as a Condition of Stable Concerted Actions', in Harvey, O. J. (ed), Motivation and Social Interaction, New York: Ronald Press, 187-238.](http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;id=c6Quh3jbt8YC&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PA379&amp;dq=garfinkel+trust&amp;ots=HoNZhYSWX8&amp;sig=degJPylllzk_I4R00YPlpUJPu-c#v=onepage&amp;q

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mcburton / README.md
Last active December 21, 2015 13:39
#4s2013 Presenters by Country

A Map of Our World

"Us" being scholars presenting at the 2013 annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. The map being a representation of the number of folks at the conference by country. The darker the red, the more people from institutions in that country will be showing up in lovely San Diego in October (presumably).

The United States of America has a strong showing, Antartica does not.

The data for this visualization was collected by:

  1. scraping the conference website
  2. obtaining location instutition by querying the Google Maps API with the self-reported instition information
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mcburton / bibtex-workflow-v0.1
Created February 11, 2014 04:38
To Install(I think, I haven't tested it): Copy the text to the clipboard, then create a new workflow and select "Paste Workflow" from the share button in the upper right. This is a rough first cut at an Editorial workflow that can parse a bibtex file, generate a list of citekeys, and prompt the user about which to insert. NOTE: you need to make …
------------ BEGIN WORKFLOW ------------
{
"actions" : [
{
"class" : "WorkflowActionGetFileName",
"pauseBeforeRunning" : false,
"customTitle" : "",
"parameters" : {
"includeExtension" : true,
"includeFolder" : false
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mcburton / citekey-workflow-v0.2.json
Last active August 29, 2015 13:56
------------ BEGIN WORKFLOW ------------
{
"actions" : [
{
"class" : "WorkflowActionCustom",
"pauseBeforeRunning" : false,
"customTitle" : "citekey-insert",
"parameters" : {
"8735E7DC-D0F4-4DB1-AAB7-4F9A72AC141D" : {
"tokenRanges" : {