Names and the Reformation: What Can Data Science Tell Us? Note: This summer, our editor-in-chief, Prof. Sara L. Uckelman, supervised the research projects of two Master of Data Science students who worked on DMNES data. In this blog post, Zhichong Liu rep…

Names and the Reformation: What Can Data Science Tell Us?

Guest post by Zhichong Liu (Durham University)

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On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names Though this blog has been rather quiet for rather longer than we might have liked, this doesn’t mean work isn’t being done…it’s just quiet, background work. But there’…

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"On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names"

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Column | Puritan baby names are back. Is ’90s culture responsible? We took a look at data going back to the Revolutionary War and found something shocking: Virtue names such as Hope, Charity and Faith are back and bigger than ever!

One of my favorite categories of names are virtue names -- both traditional/historical (Sapience! Memorantia!) and modern (Evidence! Reality!). A few weeks ago I was interviewed by two Washington Post journalists and their column came out Friday:

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We have no budget for postage, so you'll just have to accept this electronic version instead!

So perhaps our EiC and our tech guru will have a moment to sit down on a couch and revisit a couple of error messages that have popped up in the last few months, and see if we can't get the engine of things running again.

Life at DMNES central has been rather quiet since the pandemic, and we're not sure how much that'll change in the near future. However, there's nothing like Christmas vacation at the in-laws to turn the mind back to onomastics (ever notice how many of our editions come out at the end of a year?)

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We've shut down business over at The Other Place, and SOMEONE (*cough* @seaxeducation.bsky.social *cough*) asked if we were moving over here.

Oh, go on, then. Our EiC always needs more social media accounts to manage!