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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

article about Software Studies work with National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

A new article describes how we are working with National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to pioneer use of supercomputers for the analysis of visual media in the humanities context:

Linda Vu
February 18, 2010

A Computational Science Approach for Analyzing Culture


Below are some of the visualizations which use the the results of processing of our data sets on NERSC:

time_covers_up_to_1990.Xmean.Ystdev.9000w
All Time magazine covers for 1923-1989: 3480 total.

time_covers_up_to_1990.Xmean.Ystdev.F_only.9000w
All Time covers for 1923-1989: 3480 total.
Covers showing people: 2583.
Covers showing women: 260.

Time_covers_upto_1990.Xmean.Ystdev.non_white_only.9000w
All Time covers for 1923-1989: 3480 total.
Covers showing people: 2583.
Covers showing people of color: 306.