{"id":100,"date":"2015-01-03T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-01-18T01:18:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T01:18:31","slug":"links-for-aha-lightning-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"News from the 2015 AHA Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AHA_2015BannerLogo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-106 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AHA_2015BannerLogo.gif\" alt=\"AHA 2015 Annual Meeting Banner Logo\" width=\"2043\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a02015 AHA Annual Meeting demonstrated the rapid influx of digital technology\u00a0and even the &#8220;hard&#8221;\u00a0sciences into the realm of historical research.\u00a0Sessions of particular interest included <em>The Resurgence of Science in Historical Method<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>History and Biology: History and Evolution<\/em>. Such has not been without controversy, as demonstrated by Ethan Kleinberg&#8217;s talk\u00a0<em>Just the Facts: The Fantasy of a Historical Science<\/em>.\u00a0There were too many digital humanities sessions to mention here.<\/p>\n<p>HistoryQuant&#8217;s Mark Ciotola gave a lightning talk on<em> Developing Ruby Programming Simulations for History and Using R for Visualization<\/em>. Relevant links follow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paper:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1411.4739\" target=\"_blank\">Efficiency Discounted Exponential Growth (EDEG) Approach to Modeling the Power Progression of a Historical Dynasty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/simple-dynasty.herokuapp.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sample simulator<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatsuite.com\/?page_id=15\" target=\"_blank\">Learning Ruby<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a02015 AHA Annual Meeting demonstrated the rapid influx of digital technology\u00a0and even the &#8220;hard&#8221;\u00a0sciences into the realm of historical research.\u00a0Sessions of particular interest included The Resurgence of Science in Historical Method\u00a0and\u00a0History and Biology: History and Evolution. Such has not been without controversy, as demonstrated by Ethan Kleinberg&#8217;s talk\u00a0Just the Facts: The Fantasy of a Historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}