Laws of #DH

From a conversation on Twitter, the Laws of DH; there are likely more:

https://twitter.com/lincolnmullen/status/651156572358381568

https://twitter.com/jaheppler/status/651162875063439361

@Ted_Underwood @lincolnmullen @jaheppler @electricarchaeo I thought Mullen's Law was "80% of the work of analyzing data is cleaning data."

— @amandafrench@hcommons.social (@amandafrench) October 6, 2015

@electricarchaeo @Ted_Underwood @lincolnmullen @jaheppler "never do a live demo" #dhlaws

— @amandafrench@hcommons.social (@amandafrench) October 6, 2015

@electricarchaeo @Ted_Underwood @lincolnmullen @jaheppler "someone will always ask about how to define #DH" #dhlaws

— @amandafrench@hcommons.social (@amandafrench) October 6, 2015

https://twitter.com/lincolnmullen/status/651191075864862720

@amandafrench @electricarchaeo @Ted_Underwood @lincolnmullen @jaheppler you know, I always choose to do live demo. Failure is 1st DH lesson

— Jeffrey McClurken (@jmcclurken) October 6, 2015

My own rule of thumb, ‘never update anything’, expressed in Set Theory by Trent Tucker:

“never update anything once it’s working” codified in MATH! by Trent Tucker

And from Scott,

https://twitter.com/scott_bot/status/651192514414690304

The Three Laws of Robotics probably need to be unpacked more for digital humanities, for after all, what are Asimov’s robots but really effective algorithms and code? This also puts me in mind of Cory Doctorow’s recent post on the Internet of Things that Lie. Our laws of #dh need to not just be framed for the humans amongst us…

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Laws of #DH

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