I don't know how I never thought of this, but this is going to be HUGE for prepping #DataSittersClub books! 💖
I recently learned this trick for getting images out of a Google Doc, so I wanted to share in case it's useful.
File -> Download -> Web Page. Then unzip, and you've got a nice folder of images!
File -> Download -> Web Page. Then unzip, and you've got a nice folder of images!
December 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I don't know how I never thought of this, but this is going to be HUGE for prepping #DataSittersClub books! 💖
The #DataSittersClub is back... but the news is Terminal 💀. You'll survive, though, with @alyssavi.bsky.social new DSC little tl;dr #4: Navigating the Terminal for the First Time. It's the honest, practical, funny guide to the Mac Terminal that you need before you get down to work with other tools.
Navigating the Terminal for the First Time
Yikes!
datasittersclub.github.io
September 21, 2026 at 2:33 PM
The #DataSittersClub is back... but the news is Terminal 💀. You'll survive, though, with @alyssavi.bsky.social new DSC little tl;dr #4: Navigating the Terminal for the First Time. It's the honest, practical, funny guide to the Mac Terminal that you need before you get down to work with other tools.
Somehow I've ended up having Topic Modeling Friday: first prepping the new #DataSittersClub tl;dr on topic modeling by @alyssavi.bsky.social, then working my way through a comparison of Scott Enderle's "Topic Modeling Tool" and @dmimno.bsky.social jsLDA specifically as a workshop tool.
September 18, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Somehow I've ended up having Topic Modeling Friday: first prepping the new #DataSittersClub tl;dr on topic modeling by @alyssavi.bsky.social, then working my way through a comparison of Scott Enderle's "Topic Modeling Tool" and @dmimno.bsky.social jsLDA specifically as a workshop tool.
Throwing this out there: if any LaTeX experts would be down for collaborating on writing something up, this feels like it could make for a great #DataSittersClub.
Can someone make a LaTeX tutorial for digital humanists who have veered into other disciplines and publication styles?
There are so many secret tricks I don't know 😞
There are so many secret tricks I don't know 😞
April 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Throwing this out there: if any LaTeX experts would be down for collaborating on writing something up, this feels like it could make for a great #DataSittersClub.
The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.
Forming Your Corpus
You need 'stuff' to do DH
datasittersclub.github.io
April 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.
Part 2 of the #DataSittersClub back-to-school spree is @alyssavi.bsky.social DSC little tl;dr #5: What's the Deal with Topic Modeling?
Topic modeling is one of the first methods people hear about with digital humanities, but really... what's up with it? And how are you supposed to do it? And when?
Topic modeling is one of the first methods people hear about with digital humanities, but really... what's up with it? And how are you supposed to do it? And when?
What's the Deal with Topic Modeling?
Are Topics Real?
datasittersclub.github.io
September 21, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Part 2 of the #DataSittersClub back-to-school spree is @alyssavi.bsky.social DSC little tl;dr #5: What's the Deal with Topic Modeling?
Topic modeling is one of the first methods people hear about with digital humanities, but really... what's up with it? And how are you supposed to do it? And when?
Topic modeling is one of the first methods people hear about with digital humanities, but really... what's up with it? And how are you supposed to do it? And when?
We just added it all up, and the #DataSittersClub is over 329,000 words. 😳 And counting.
December 12, 2023 at 2:57 PM
We just added it all up, and the #DataSittersClub is over 329,000 words. 😳 And counting.
Tomorrow: the #DataSittersClub little tl;dr series returns with two new pieces by @alyssavi.bsky.social: "Navigating the Terminal for the First Time" and "What's the Deal with Topic Modeling?"
September 21, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Tomorrow: the #DataSittersClub little tl;dr series returns with two new pieces by @alyssavi.bsky.social: "Navigating the Terminal for the First Time" and "What's the Deal with Topic Modeling?"
Coming next week: the #DataSittersClub is back with a new book on corpus-building!
September 9, 2023 at 4:05 PM
Coming next week: the #DataSittersClub is back with a new book on corpus-building!
It is a good Monday because @halperta.bsky.social has joined us in this corner of the internet! 🥳 Really looking forward to sharing their musings on zines in an upcoming #DataSittersClub.
October 2, 2023 at 4:17 PM
It is a good Monday because @halperta.bsky.social has joined us in this corner of the internet! 🥳 Really looking forward to sharing their musings on zines in an upcoming #DataSittersClub.
Positive sign of covid brain fog recovery: having the attention and focus to finish scanning all 16 Indonesian Baby-Sitters Club translations, OCR them, machine back-translate them, and then run Bleualign to line them up with the originals. #DataSittersClub 🥳
February 27, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Positive sign of covid brain fog recovery: having the attention and focus to finish scanning all 16 Indonesian Baby-Sitters Club translations, OCR them, machine back-translate them, and then run Bleualign to line them up with the originals. #DataSittersClub 🥳
Looking for something joyful, fulfilling, and very human that lets you assure the Powers That Be that you're making students "AI ready"? Tell them you're doing what they do at Stanford! The #DataSittersClub is delighted to share little tl;dr #3 on bringing textile dataviz to the classroom. #DHmakes
Getting 'AI Ready' with Textiles
No computers required!
datasittersclub.github.io
April 27, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Looking for something joyful, fulfilling, and very human that lets you assure the Powers That Be that you're making students "AI ready"? Tell them you're doing what they do at Stanford! The #DataSittersClub is delighted to share little tl;dr #3 on bringing textile dataviz to the classroom. #DHmakes
Pssst! Just in time for @readywriting.bsky.social zine-making session on Friday at #ACH2025, we'll have a new #DataSittersClub for you all... including an interview with @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines! 😍
June 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Pssst! Just in time for @readywriting.bsky.social zine-making session on Friday at #ACH2025, we'll have a new #DataSittersClub for you all... including an interview with @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines! 😍
It's amazing how stuck you can get when you're working on a project that fails to nourish the soul of anyone on the team.
And how easily things come together when you're working on things you love.
Anyhow, we're going to have more #DataSittersClub for you (including 2 new tl;dr pieces) very soon.
And how easily things come together when you're working on things you love.
Anyhow, we're going to have more #DataSittersClub for you (including 2 new tl;dr pieces) very soon.
April 9, 2026 at 2:32 PM
It's amazing how stuck you can get when you're working on a project that fails to nourish the soul of anyone on the team.
And how easily things come together when you're working on things you love.
Anyhow, we're going to have more #DataSittersClub for you (including 2 new tl;dr pieces) very soon.
And how easily things come together when you're working on things you love.
Anyhow, we're going to have more #DataSittersClub for you (including 2 new tl;dr pieces) very soon.
Blog post coming Monday about what I'm looking for in a tool for doing topic modeling in a workshop or class, plus what are honestly my two favorite #DataSittersClub tl;dr pieces ever. 💖
September 18, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Blog post coming Monday about what I'm looking for in a tool for doing topic modeling in a workshop or class, plus what are honestly my two favorite #DataSittersClub tl;dr pieces ever. 💖
The #DataSittersClub now has DOIs! 🥳 A bit of bloggage on how we made it happen with help from the Stanford digital repository folks.
DOIs for DSC
digitalhumanities.stanford.edu
January 30, 2024 at 5:27 PM
The #DataSittersClub now has DOIs! 🥳 A bit of bloggage on how we made it happen with help from the Stanford digital repository folks.
I am so so excited for this! We were just thinking of a #DataSittersClub on BookNLP; maybe @readywriting.bsky.social and I should start that one as a Multilingual Mystery with our French translations!
🚀📢 BookNLP-fr is here!
A major step for french computational literary studies by the Lattice Lab team—Frédérique, Olga, Martial, Clément, @tpoibeau.bsky.social and I!
🌍 The French expansion of @dbamman.bsky.social’s BookNLP project
📖 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#ComputationalHumanities #NLP
A major step for french computational literary studies by the Lattice Lab team—Frédérique, Olga, Martial, Clément, @tpoibeau.bsky.social and I!
🌍 The French expansion of @dbamman.bsky.social’s BookNLP project
📖 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#ComputationalHumanities #NLP
BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature
This paper presents BookNLP-fr: the adaptation to French of BookNLP, an existing NLP pipeline tailored for literary texts in English. We provide an overview of the challenges involved in the adaptatio...
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 5:01 PM
I am so so excited for this! We were just thinking of a #DataSittersClub on BookNLP; maybe @readywriting.bsky.social and I should start that one as a Multilingual Mystery with our French translations!
#DataSittersClub problems: searching the MLA program for friends to enlist in your international book transit network, in order to get your hands on a new translation brought over from Japan.
January 4, 2024 at 12:46 PM
#DataSittersClub problems: searching the MLA program for friends to enlist in your international book transit network, in order to get your hands on a new translation brought over from Japan.
Coming tomorrow!
It's a joy to put the final touches on this new piece. Even indexing is fun with the #DataSittersClub. 🥰
It's a joy to put the final touches on this new piece. Even indexing is fun with the #DataSittersClub. 🥰
Coming next week: the #DataSittersClub is back with a new book on corpus-building!
September 11, 2023 at 4:10 PM
Coming tomorrow!
It's a joy to put the final touches on this new piece. Even indexing is fun with the #DataSittersClub. 🥰
It's a joy to put the final touches on this new piece. Even indexing is fun with the #DataSittersClub. 🥰
Today I've been writing our next #DataSittersClub little tl;dr: a guide to doing textile data visualization in the classroom. And it brings me great joy that we've gotten un-stuck from our slog through AI so we can bring you more things like this.
April 26, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Today I've been writing our next #DataSittersClub little tl;dr: a guide to doing textile data visualization in the classroom. And it brings me great joy that we've gotten un-stuck from our slog through AI so we can bring you more things like this.
I love this idea, and now I'm thinking about how to apply it to some of my more currently-frustrating crafts. And the examples for Terminal and Git are wonderfully thought-out. Relatedly, the #DataSittersClub has a tl;dr that we'll be posting soon by @alyssavi.bsky.social about the Terminal. 🥰
New post applies Kenny Werner's concept of Effortless Mastery to DH. Maps out a semester-long, daily practice with the very basics of terminal, Git, HTML, CSS. Intended to help students find inner confidence as they navigate difficulty, frustration, and GenAI.
walshbr.com/blog/effortl...
walshbr.com/blog/effortl...
Effortless Digital Humanities · Brandon Walsh
walshbr.com
August 4, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I love this idea, and now I'm thinking about how to apply it to some of my more currently-frustrating crafts. And the examples for Terminal and Git are wonderfully thought-out. Relatedly, the #DataSittersClub has a tl;dr that we'll be posting soon by @alyssavi.bsky.social about the Terminal. 🥰
Next time someone asks me about my typical day, I'm going for today: writing #DataSittersClub on a train, analysis of contributor patterns on Wikipedia across several languages, teach someone the rigid heddle loom, fix knitting machine, website accessibility meeting, grad student career advice.
April 10, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Next time someone asks me about my typical day, I'm going for today: writing #DataSittersClub on a train, analysis of contributor patterns on Wikipedia across several languages, teach someone the rigid heddle loom, fix knitting machine, website accessibility meeting, grad student career advice.
The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...
August 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...
Sneak peak of the next #DataSittersClub, "Dawn of the Coasting AI", with @anasalter.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social!
"Dawn on the Coast" is a weird BSC book and not for everyone, and we know this one won't be, too. But we'll have a little survey about AI & DH at the end for your feedback!
"Dawn on the Coast" is a weird BSC book and not for everyone, and we know this one won't be, too. But we'll have a little survey about AI & DH at the end for your feedback!
August 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Sneak peak of the next #DataSittersClub, "Dawn of the Coasting AI", with @anasalter.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social!
"Dawn on the Coast" is a weird BSC book and not for everyone, and we know this one won't be, too. But we'll have a little survey about AI & DH at the end for your feedback!
"Dawn on the Coast" is a weird BSC book and not for everyone, and we know this one won't be, too. But we'll have a little survey about AI & DH at the end for your feedback!
Fun fact: the Baby-Sitters Club books have had very little editing to keep up with slang or technology (tiny things in the first handful of books, then nothing) but switching out "thongs" in reference to footwar was one of those changes. #DataSittersClub
August 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Fun fact: the Baby-Sitters Club books have had very little editing to keep up with slang or technology (tiny things in the first handful of books, then nothing) but switching out "thongs" in reference to footwar was one of those changes. #DataSittersClub