Category Archives: Digital Panopticon

WHM18: Women’s heights in the Digital Panopticon

Posted on 17 March 2018 by

I’ve recently been working on the Digital Panopticon, a digital history project that has brought together (and created) massive amounts of data about British prisoners and convicts in the long 19th century, including several datasets which include heights for women. … Continue reading →

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Defendants’ voices and silences in the Old Bailey courtroom, 1781-1880

Posted on 15 September 2017 by

This is a version of the paper I gave at the Digital Panopticon launch conference at Liverpool in September 2017. In the interests of fostering reproducible research in the humanities, I’ve put all the data and R code underlying this … Continue reading →

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Record Linkage: project workshop and work in progress

Posted on 19 October 2014 by

We’re holding an afternoon workshop on record/data linkage in Sheffield on 4 November. The aim is to explore the challenges and rewards of applying automated nominal record linkage to large-scale historical datasets, with all their variability, fuzziness and uncertainties, but … Continue reading →

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Data And The Digital Panopticon

Posted on 15 April 2014 by

Originally posted on Criminal Historian:
The view from my seat at the DP data visualisation workshop Yesterday, I went to All Souls College, Oxford, for a data visualisation workshop organised by the Digital Panopticon project. The project – a collaboration…

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New project, new people: the Digital Panopticon

Posted on 3 November 2013 by

Starting a new project is exciting and intensely busy (which is also my excuse for taking a month to blog about it). And the Digital Panopticon is the biggest one we’ve done yet. ‘The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of … Continue reading →

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