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Gods and Snakes
A four-part series exploring Ancient Greek, natural language processing, Python, and a data science capstone project.
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Data Work Is Translation Work
The database does not speak human
An essay on why data work is often less about numbers and more about translating between human questions, database structures, definitions, and decisions.
Building This Site Part 1
So I made a website
A short write-up on turning a static Bootstrap portfolio into a Markdown-powered Eleventy site with articles, series, images, and a proper writing archive.
Building This Site Part 2
Paths, caches, and other small betrayals
A follow-up on the less glamorous parts of getting this site working: subfolder hosting, broken links, browser cache lies, article lists, and Eleventy permalinks.
Gods and Snakes Part 4
Big words
The series turns from abandoned ideas to the final project: using a neural network to attempt ancient Greek part-of-speech tagging.
Gods and Snakes Part 3
Consulting the Oracle
A look at ancient Greek prosody, poetic meter, and why automatic scansion was not the final capstone direction.
Gods and Snakes Part 2
What to do?
A look at why authorship prediction was too large in scope for the capstone project.
Gods and Snakes Part 1
NLP on ancient languages
The first post in a capstone series about bringing NLP and data science to ancient Greek.