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Itamar Shatz

Research Associate, Cambridge Digital Humanities

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Areas Of Expertise:

Data analysis, Data wrangling, Data sharing, Science communication, Python, R language, Statistical analysis, Open data, Writing/publishing data papers, Textual data, Social media and digital communications, Website development

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I primarily work with large-scale language datasets, using methods from quantitative and computational social sciences, as well as the digital humanities. I also teach associated research methods, like statistics, data wrangling, and visualization.

Outside my research, I am an active science communicator, primarily via two websites that I author: Effectiviology (https://effectiviology.com/), where I write about psychology and philosophy that have practical applications, and Solving Procrastination (https://solvingprocrastination.com/), where I write about what procrastination is, why we do it, and how to overcome it.

As a Data Champion, I focus on the use of quantitative and computational methods for working with data (e.g., for data wrangling and statistical analyses). I also deal with associated topics, like maximizing the impact of research through open research and science communication.

Xinyi Wen

PhD student

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Data collection, Database design, Data architecture, Version control, Data storage, Open data, FAIR Data, Data archiving, Data preservation, Writing/publishing data papers, Textual data, Audiovisual data, Digitisation, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications, Website development

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xw360@cam.ac.uk

@HPSWarburgian

ORCiD:

0000-0002-2147-2854

Biography

I am a historian of science, medicine and humanities. Currently I am a PhD candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, working on the Wellcome-funded research project "The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Medical Practice (221115/Z/20/Z)". I specialise in the history of medicine, natural history and occult sciences in early modern Europe, and the history of ideas in the long nineteenth century, particularly in the circle of art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929). Before coming to Cambridge, I have worked as a new media art curator in Beijing.

As a historian, I am very interested in the historical aspect of Research Data Management from early modern botanical taxonomy, nineteenth-century index cards to the digital age. I seek to explore how techniques of data management shaped our perspectives, methodologies, and construction of scientific objects in the long run, and how our RDM practice in humanities today could benefit from past theories and experiences. I am the founder of the History of Science Library, a public Zotero library for the history of science and a resource hub for historical and contemporary data management in humanities. Currently I'm running RDM training sessions both in my department and virtually based at the History of Science Library, please feel free to get in touch.

Itamar Shatz

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