Daniel Evans
djevans.bsky.social
Daniel Evans
@djevans.bsky.social
PhD candidate, Information Science, UIUC

https://danieljohnevans.github.io/
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The new features are still in alpha—but @djevans.bsky.social's contextual tools for Viral Texts data are live clusters.viraltexts.org

Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7

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Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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with apologies to @xkcd.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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After five years, Newspaper Navigator is undergoing some changes - the dataset will continue on, but it's time to say good bye to the search application. LC Labs and I would love to hear from past users about their experiences with Newspaper Navigator in the comments:

blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...
Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator! | The Signal
The Library will retire the Newspaper Navigator application on April 21st, 2025. Created by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee while he was in service as a Library of Congress Innovator in Residence, the ap...
blogs.loc.gov
March 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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@zoeleblanc.bsky.social @djevans.bsky.social working with serial data. Focusing on periodicals that offer insights into the global south as well as with copyrighted info. A shout out to @bschmidt.bsky.social bc drawing on his approach to sequence alignment. #chr2024
December 5, 2024 at 9:32 AM