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Brabant 2018 Workshop

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October 2, 2011
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PhDO III – event in Amsterdam

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October 2, 2011
Art, Events, Research
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PhDO is a network: both for individuals in the creative sector, and for people working in research and development. The network aims to develop realistic insights in the process of preparing, applying, setting up & carrying out research in the Creative Sector. At the same time, it is providing a podium to present research results to a relevant audience. You are kindly invited to join the third edition of PhDO.

PhDO III
During this third PhDO meeting, Joost Rekveld and Cocky Eek (KABK) will present their approach to Creative and Artistic Research. Frederik de Wilde and Roman Kirschner will talk about their work, the relation between art and science and their relation to the academic world. During ‘Open Space’, there will be an open dialogue with participants and speakers about arts, science and possibilities for designers, artists and decision makers in the creative sector to add in-depth knowledge and tools to their professional experience.

PhDO organizes network events and we exchange information and thoughts via the PhDO Linked-in group. If you are interested, please take part in the network.

Program
15:30 Doors open
16:00 Welcome & introduction
16:10 Frederik de Wilde
16:30 Roman Kirschner
16:50 Joost Reveld & Cocky Eek
17:10 Q&A with Frederik de Wilde, Roman Kirschner, Joost Rekveld & Cocky Eek
17:30 Open Space
18:00 Wrap-up & drinks

When?
Thursday the 6th of October
From 16.00 to 18.00 hrs, doors open at 15.30
Drinks afterwards till 19.30

Where?
Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam.

What we learned from 5 million books

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October 2, 2011
Books, Other stuff, Research, Uncategorized, Websites
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Perhaps the biggest collection of words ever assembled has just gone online: 500 billion of them, from 5 million books published over the past four centuries.

The words make up a searchable database that researchers at Harvard say is a new and powerful tool to study cultural change.

The words are a product of Google’s book-scanning project. The company has converted approximately 15 million books so far into electronic documents. That’s about 15 percent of all books ever published. It includes books published in English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Russian and Hebrew.

The full NPR article.

And a Ted Talk about the project.

Have you played with Google Labs’ Ngram Viewer? It’s an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.

Private and public in the Ngram Viewer.