A Reminder Not to Use Bare except Statements in Python
Bare except statements are a well-known anti-idiom in Python, and this post illustrates one example why that is.
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Teaching Digital Humanities on A Laptop
This summer Graham Sack, a doctoral student in the English department is teaching an introductory course in Digital Humanities called ''Computational Methods for Literary and Cultural Criticism''. Together with CCNMTL, Graham developed a cutting edge approach, using a web-based programming environment called IPython Notebook, to teach programming to novices.
Reflections on the Open Analytics Summit
Back in June, I attended the one-day Open Analytics Summit. We aren't really doing much with analytics or big data here at CCNMTL (yet), but there are many conversations and projects happening around campus and I wanted to get a better sense of the kinds of value these methods are yielding.