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Author: Daniel van Strien

Can we use machine learning to classify whether a book is ‘fiction’ or ‘non-fiction’ from its title?

January 24, 2022 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Summary: we built a book genre classification model using training data created by British Library staff; the model...

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nnanno: a tool to help work with Newspaper Navigator images

July 9, 2021 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Newspapers are a visual medium, communicating not only through text but also through visual information, including...

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Using GitHub Actions and Jupyter Notebooks to track Living With Machines GitHub traffic

December 15, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Funded research projects usually need to show they are spending money effectively and are having an impact on people....

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Using hack days to explore maps at scale: two examples

September 18, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien

This is part two of a two-part blog post. You can find part one in this previous post. This blog post is accompanied by...

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Using hack days to explore maps at scale

September 18, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien

This two part blog post is accompanied by a set of map hack day example notebooks on GitHub. When Living with Machines...

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The impact of OCR on downstream Natural Language Processing tasks (tl;dr)

March 6, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien

In this blog post, we give a summary of a recent paper written by project members on the impact of OCR quality. The...

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Code and Coffee 💻☕️

January 27, 2020 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Alongside our deep learning reading group, we have introduced ‘Code and Coffee’. These sessions – as...

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Deep learning reading group

October 16, 2019 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Keeping up with Natural Language Processing The Living with Machines project will have many potential uses of Natural...

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Collecting annotations from British Library staff

September 23, 2019 | Written by Daniel van Strien

Like many projects working with digitised historic materials, the historians and data scientists on the project are...

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Living with Machines OCR hack 

July 24, 2019 | Written by Daniel van Strien

The Living with Machines project will draw on maps, newspapers, press directories, census records and a wide range of...

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Introducing… Daniel van Strien

April 11, 2019 | Written by Daniel van Strien

What’s your name? Daniel van Strien What’s your background? I studied Economic and Social History at...

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