500 Days of Summer is a love story that isn’t quite a love story. The guy doesn’t get the girl. They do not go skipping into the sunset and everything is not okay. It has the two best actors (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel). 500 Days of Summer is about realizing how blind you can be in … Continue reading 500 Days of Summer

  For the reading, we were supposed to ‘read’ or look at a bunch of super interesting graphics about Vogue magazine but I ran into a problem. I have almost no context. I’ve never read Vogue. I have never even opened a magazine. It hasn’t been in my dentist’s office’s waiting room. None of my …

Robots Reading Vogue analyzes the dataset of the magazine Vogue from its beginning in 1892 through 2013. Speaking of robots, is Vogue self-aware? The n-gram search on “Vogue” and “vogue” (using the case-sensitive option of course) suggests that metacognition in the popular magazine has not been in vogue of late. The two terms trend together, …

Okay, you caught me. Yes. I am one of those people who has avidly read Vogue for years and still buys the magazine almost every month. And to be honest, anticipating the release of the September issue every year is one of the most exciting […]

After completing two months in beginner screwmeneutics and digital humanities research, I felt like the Vogue files was a blank canvas for exploration, especially without an introduction to the subject matter. Here’s what I found. My search started with the statistics page, looking at the default setting of circulation. I noticed four periods of general …

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I thought these articles were really cool! It was a really good read after just doing our own summing projects with images from movies and reading about Ferguson’s work. I found it very cool that that digital humanities can be about anything, you can work with any subject – even Vogue covers – and get cool results that can either have a purpose, or just on its own be something for people to look at and enjoy. I thought it…

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I’m not going to pretend I’ve ever cracked open a Vogue magazine, but Madonna is now stuck in my head. Among being impressed with all of the different subjects to mess around with in the digital humanities, I like that these tools can paint a larger picture (figuratively and literally).  The Vogue production team can take a look at… Read More Strike the Pose