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Highlights

  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

tools

Old French fabliaux in modern English translations

Here’s a tool for finding and analyzing modern English translations of Old French fabliaux. It’s call the fabliaux bibliographic dataset. … Read the post Old French fabliaux in modern English translations

big data and controlled experiments

Big data and controlled experiments are tools for thinking, not substitutes for thinking. … Read the post big data and controlled experiments

building a data search engine

A good search engine for data would make the web more enlightening. Lack of a good business model may be keeping users in data darkness. … Read the post building a data search engine

describing statistics

Needle and Thread allows you to understand statistics by seeing how they’re calculated and enabling experiments with alternatives. … Read the post describing statistics

badly structured tables have a bright future

Which is a better, one big table, or two or more smaller tables?  The organization of the data sources, the number of smaller tables, the extent of the relationships between the smaller tables, and economies in table processing all affect the balance of advantage.  But cheaper storage, cheaper computing power, and fancier data tools probably … Continue reading badly structured tables have a bright future

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