We made a brief visit to Kamakura. The original Kamakura photo gallery is here. While in Kamakura, we rode the Enoshima Electric Railway, which was a lot of fun.
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Ise Shrine in Mie
We visited the Ise Shrine in Mie on a lovely summer day. This is a spectacular location and well worth a trip out from Nagoya. The original Ise Shrine gallery is here.
Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park 地獄谷野猿公苑
While in Japan, we visited the Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park near Yudanaka and Shigakogen. There is an onsen there for monkeys. We were there in the summer and it was warm, so the snow monkeys didn’t spend much time in the onsen. They did hang around nearby, and they were delightful. The original gallery is…
Yoshiike Ryokan Garden, Hakone-Yumoto
While visiting Hakone, we stayed at the lovely Yoshiike Ryokan in Hakone-Yumoto. It had a lovely garden. The original photo gallery is at my photography website.
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) 東京都現代美術館
In summer 2023 while in Tokyo we visited the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT). The complex is spectacular, and makes for great photography. The original gallery is at my photography website.
Tokyo skyline seen from Sky Deck at Mori Towers Roppongi Hills, before and after sunset
This summer while in Tokyo we spent a late afternoon and evening at the Sky Deck at Mori Towers in Roppongi Hills. The views of the Tokyo skyline were spectacular. The original gallery is at my website.
Working paper on age dynamics of official careers during the Qing
We’ve been working on a manuscript of a paper on the age dynamics of the careers of civil officials during the Qing. It has reached the point where we are comfortable sharing it, both in the hope of receiving feedback, and also as a resource for anyone interested in the basic descriptive on the ages…
HKUST Birds 香港科技大學野鳥
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.
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…