Kris Shaffer

One of the best places to get your feet wet with text mining is Twitter data. Though not as open as it used to be for... »

Almost immediately after the election, people started noticing pages disappearing from federal government websites. Some of this is par for the course in a new administration.... »

Can artificial intelligence identify potential terrorist activity? This past week, BBC News published an article, “Facebook algorithms ‘will identify terrorists’”. It describes the content of a... »

When Donald Trump became president of the United States, a lot disappeared from the administration website, whitehouse.gov. This is standard practice for a new administration, and... »

The New York Philharmonic has a public dataset containing metadata for their entire performance history. I recently discovered this, and of course downloaded it and started... »

Minimalist lifestyle seems to be the latest craze. Minimalism is not just a genre of music or a visual aesthetic, or even an interior design scheme... »

Official results are not yet in from every state, but we have good enough numbers to start to tackle some of the statistical questions surrounding last... »

The following is a talk I shared at Moravian College to humanities faculty as they work through issues of blended learning in a liberal arts context.... »

Today at UMW, Kate Bowles recounted an experience in a cemetery with her daughter. She was inadvertently standing on a grave, and her daughter told her... »

This is part of a series of posts in which I blog through my process of learning API programming in general and the Medium API in... »