Having had the experience of someone else narrating your childhood because of a #DataSittersClub chapter in a book on the Baby-Sitters Club... can confirm, it's very strange.
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DSC 23 cover with a boy labeled "higher ed" splashing Dawn with sparkly AI. She doesn't necessarily mind? The text at the bottom reads "AI is in everything now, but is it actually useful?"
The #DataSittersClub is right there with you with that last book we did (and our next one in progress).
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😍 I forget if I told you, but my MLIS students independently discovered the #DataSittersClub this quarter, and they were SO pumped.
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I don't know how I never thought of this, but this is going to be HUGE for prepping #DataSittersClub books! 💖
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The #DataSittersClub has a piece on topic modeling (both what it does and concretely, how to do it) that cleared up a lot of things for me, in doing it: datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc20.h...
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TFW that example you used in your #DataSittersClub book on copyright for something that's only feasible for the rights holder to do... Now exists because the original author did copyright clawback on her original contract and she's making it happen.
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Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!
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A kid labeled "higher ed" splashes AI on Dawn, in a pink bikini on the beach.
The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...
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Fun fact: the Baby-Sitters Club books have had very little editing to keep up with slang or technology (tiny things in the first handful of books, then nothing) but switching out "thongs" in reference to footwar was one of those changes. #DataSittersClub
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Data-Sitters Club cover with "higher ed" splashing Dawn with AI water.
Sneak peak of the next #DataSittersClub, "Dawn of the Coasting AI", with @anasalter.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social!
"Dawn on the Coast" is a weird BSC book and not for everyone, and we know this one won't be, too. But we'll have a little survey about AI & DH at the end for your feedback!
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A shiny new #DataSittersClub book is out in the world today! @readywriting.bsky.social and @quinnanya.me do a deep dive into zines: what they are, why you might want to make one, and how to do it. Check out Lee Skallerup Bessette: Zine-Sitter! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc22.h...
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The #DataSittersClub is back and we're talking zines! @readywriting.bsky.social checks out a collection of handmade books (manuscripts to zines), and tries making 4 zines in 5 days out of earlier DSC books! We also interview tech zine pros @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines!
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A fluffy tabby cat posing on a cutting board next to a shirt with a skeleton holding up a leaf, purple and black striped sleeves, and astrological print at the bottom. On the right is a shirt with a big phoenix panel and astrological print.
Me: Thursday night, gotta sit down to publish the next #DataSittersClub for #ACH2025.
Oldest kid: OK so can you make me a lich shirt for the last day of D&D camp? I have plans...
Bonus kid, sleeping over: Space Phoenix, maybe?
Me: 🤨 Yeah fine I can't say no to this. #DHmakes
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Cover of DSC #22: Lee Skallerup Bessette, Zine-Sitter, with Lee pointing to the text "We can do better than just printing out the DSC!" and holding a zine of the cover.
Pssst! Just in time for @readywriting.bsky.social zine-making session on Friday at #ACH2025, we'll have a new #DataSittersClub for you all... including an interview with @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines! 😍
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The #DataSittersClub is so proud of our favorite Junior Officer! 😍 You can check out some of her work in "Cadence's Archives Mystery" datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc17.h... and "The Data-Sitters' HathiTrust Mistake": datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc18.h...
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Throwing this out there: if any LaTeX experts would be down for collaborating on writing something up, this feels like it could make for a great #DataSittersClub.
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Gotta dig through my Twitter archive for those fun #DataSittersClub ads where we told people to vote for either of us, the two people running. 🤣
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This memoir through text analysis was a delightful public transit read today. I could weigh in on some of the pieces (especially sentiment analysis), but despite the different subject matter, it feels like there's a kinship with the #DataSittersClub here. 🥰
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Noooo just accept this (perhaps mixed blessing) gift from the universe and leave everyone alone!
(I say, texting back in the #DataSittersClub group chat that's popping off about zine adaptation...)
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Riffing on the multilingual, the #DataSittersClub corpora come to mind. I've got pretty big Italian and French translation sets along with the English. Not sure what the question would be (literary information retrieval something?) but could make an interesting DSC book to explain this.
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I am so so excited for this! We were just thinking of a #DataSittersClub on BookNLP; maybe @readywriting.bsky.social and I should start that one as a Multilingual Mystery with our French translations!
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Sorry this is kind of random, but we're working on a #DataSittersClub on zines and we were wondering if maybe you'd be up for chatting with us as a guest Data Sitter about what you do? We're big fans!
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My great-grandfather, a geography professor, wrote popular press books about the geography of Europe to help people understand the news better during WWII.
Sometimes I think about how that echoes with what we do with the #DataSittersClub.
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Definitely going to need to tackle BookNLP for a future #DataSittersClub, including what to expect in terms of data cleanup/normalization to get good results. A personal narrative that references family members named (in part) after one another is hard mode, w/ false clustering across generations. 🫠
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I woke up early and the words were finally there to say something about this year. For the #DataSittersClub I wrote about Rebecca Munson and how I ended up with purple hair. This is part 2 of that story: what happens when you pick up the purple and don't put it down and let it change you?
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Yikes! When we did the #DataSittersClub HathiTrust Mistake, we just meant it was hard to use and was missing the kinds of materials we were looking for (other middle grade/YA). Was planning to give our BSC books in translation to UofI to include in Hathi but maybe we need a new plan with this news.
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Karen in a field of sunflowers for the cover of DSC little tl;dr #1. Title is "DH Curious?" and the blurb is "What's DH?"
The #DataSittersClub big in-person fight led to a new sub-series. Meet "Data-Sitters little tl;dr", just enough DH to get started with, all in 1500 words or less! First up, we have some ideas for how to get started with exploring what DH can do for you! datasittersclub.github.io/tldr/books/t...
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Data-Sitters Club Super Special: The Data-Sitters Debate at Dartmouth book cover, with the quip "The Data-Sitters finally meet in person... and get into a big fight!"
What happened when the
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met in person for the first time? We immediately got into an argument! If you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall for a DH project-internal debate, DSC Super Special 1: Data-Sitters Debate at Dartmouth is for you! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dscss1....
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Cover of DSC Super Special 1: The Data-Sitters Debate at Dartmouth, with quip "The Data-Sitters finally meet in person... and get into a big fight!"
Cover of Data-Sitters little tl;dr with Karen standing in a field of sunflowers, and the quip "What's DH?"
Want more #DataSittersClub? Tomorrow we've got something Super Special for you... and a brand new sub-series for the DH curious!
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