by Art of Counting | Methods
A few weeks ago, I became aware of a marvelous art history project known as Smarthistory. Founded by two New York art historians, Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, Smarthistory grew from their pursuit of creating an accessible way to introduce art history to...
by Art of Counting | Methods
An article on data mining appeared in the Atlantic yesterday. This brief piece explains a number of the complex methods of data mining in wonderfully simple terms. Discovering information from data takes two major forms: description and prediction. At the scale we...
by Art of Counting | Methods
Our amazing statistical partner, Lili Garrard, is a Senior Analyst at the University of Kansas School of Nursing. She has been involved with the Art of Counting project for more than four years now and has performed a wide array of analyses on the data from Ramses...
by Art of Counting | Current Events Egypt, Methods
Delighted by more and more confirmed news emerging of undamaged sites (for regular news updates from multiple sources, see the excellent Egyptology News, Egyptological Looting Database, and Talking Pyramids websites), many of which were guarded by heroic ordinary...
by Art of Counting | Current Events Egypt, Methods
The current protests in Egypt show us exactly how fragile the illusion of stability can be in the face of reality. It truly is astonishing that these ancient objects and sites have survived at all, across these thousands of years. It is breathtaking and utterly...
by Art of Counting | Announcement, Methods
It is my great pleasure to announce the successful defense of my Ph.D. dissertation, on which the Art of Counting project is based. On Friday, January 21, I met my advisor, David O’Connor, my readers, Ogden Goelet and Diana Craig Patch (Associate Curator,...
