A few years ago I started getting up in the morning and walking around campus to take pictures of the birds. I started with a RF100-400 f5.6-8, sometimes with a 2x teleconverter, and more recently I’ve been shooting with the RF800 f11. Here is the full gallery of HKUST bird pictures at my Smugmug site.
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New publication using process mining to study the careers of Qing officials in the CGED-Q JSL
Adam Burke at the Queensland University of Technology lead-authored a paper “State Snapshot Process Discovery on Career Paths of Qing Dynasty Civil Servants” that introduces a new process mining technique he calls ‘state snapshot process discovery’ and illustrates it by application to our CGED-Q JSL data on the careers of jinshi officials. I am a…
Training guide for using R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL Public Release
Chen Jun has created a training guide (in Chinese) to help anyone who would like to learn how to use R to analyze the CGED-Q JSL Public Releases. The PDF file is available for download here. Chen Jun has produced other resources including slides and sample code for R, and they and the training guide…
Mount Tamalpais
On a clear day, Mount Tamalpais offers incredible views of the ocean and the Bay.
Foothills Nature Preserve
Foothills Nature preserve was another of our favorite places for hiking.
Castle Rock State Park
Castle Rock State Park on Skyline Drive is another lovely place for hiking on the Peninsula. My original gallery is here.
Windy Hill Open Space Preserve
We enjoyed hiking at Windy Hill Open Space Preserve. The original gallery is here.
Pearson-Arastradero Preserve
The Pearson-Arastradero is a lovely preserve in Palo Alto. We went walking there a number of times. The original gallery is here.
New 大数据与中国历史 with translation of my and James Lee’s 40 year career retrospective is now available
The 4th edition of the annual 大数据与中国历史 (Big Data and Chinese History), edited by Fu Haiyan at Central China Normal University, is out now from 社会科学文献出版社 (Social Science Documents Publishing House). It includes a Chinese translation of my and James Lee’s career retrospective, summarizing our work over the last four decades constructing and analyzing historical…
English version of forthcoming paper on the organizational demography of the Qing civil service
社會科學研究 (Social Science Research) published by the Sichuan Academy of Social Science has accepted our paper “The Organizational Demography of the Qing Civil Service, 1830-1911” and scheduled it for publication in 2024. In the meantime, they have given permission for us to share the English language version. Here is the PDF at Soc ArXiv: The…