I’m a researcher in Computational Humanities and Cultural
Evolution at Amsterdam’s Meertens
Institute, affiliated with the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. I study aspects of cultural
change and experiment with methods to quantify cultural diversity and
complexity. A significant aspect of my research is understanding and
accounting for biases in these quantifications. I like to use computational
models from fields such as Machine Learning, Cultural Evolution, and Ecology
to aid these investigations. Beyond research, I have a passion for teaching
computer programming, especially within the Humanities context. Together with
Mike Kestemont and Allen
Riddell, I published the book “Humanities Data
Analysis” with Princeton University Press, which guides readers on leveraging
Python for analyzing Humanities data. Check out the open access edition
here!
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