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Old Bailey Voices: gender, speech and outcomes in the Old Bailey, part 1
The Old Bailey Voices data is the result of work I’ve done for the Voices of Authority research theme for the Digital Panopticon project. This will be the first of a few blog posts in which I start to dig … Continue reading
Posted in Digital History, Digital Panopticon, Old Bailey Online
Tagged data, dataviz, in her minds eye
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WHM18: Women’s heights in the Digital Panopticon
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
Posted in Crime/Law, Digital History, Digital Panopticon, WHM, Women/Gender
Tagged data visualisation, statistics, whm18
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Defendants’ voices and silences in the Old Bailey courtroom, 1781-1880
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
Record Linkage: project workshop and work in progress
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
Posted in Academic Work, Conferences, Crime/Law, Digital History, Digital Panopticon
Tagged big data, data linkage, record linkage
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Data And The Digital Panopticon
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…
Posted in Crime/Law, Digital History, Digital Panopticon, Old Bailey Online
Tagged visualisation
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New project, new people: the Digital Panopticon
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
