[From the Archives] Ep 105: Dr. Kris Shaffer on Computational Musicology

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On this episode, Katie is joined by Kris Shaffer, Ph.D., a data scientist with a background in computational musicology. Kris currently works as an Instructional Technology Specialist and Adjunct Instructor of Computer Science at the University of Mary Washington. He also does freelance work in web and social-media intelligence, and serves as a volunteer researcher for Data for Democracy. He is a Contributing Editor and Board member for Hybrid Pedagogy and the lead author and editor of Open Music Theory: an open-source, interactive textbook for undergraduate music theory courses.

You can find him on the web at pushpullfork.com and github.com/kshaffer.

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Segment 1: Computational Musicology [00:00-10:42]

In this first segment, Kris discusses his background in computational musicology.

In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:

• Hybrid Pedagogy
• Open Music Theory
• Composer György Ligeti
• Million Song Dataset

Segment 2: Open-source Software Development [10:43-20:50]

In segment two, Kris shares about his motivations for creating open-source software.

In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:

• Shaffer, K. (2013, May 23). Open-source scholarship. Retrieved from https://hybridpedagogy.org/open-source-scholarship/
• Mozilla
• Android
• Find Dr. Shaffer on GitHub: github.com/kshaffer
• Domain of One’s Own and the University of Mary Washington
  • For more on the Domain of One’s Own, check out RIA # 99: Dr. Jesse Stommel on Founding a Journal
• Data for Democracy
• GitHub

Segment 3: New Research Directions [20:51-33:30]

In segment three, Kris shares about his most recent work on hate speech.

In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:

• Data for Democracy

Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-4:41]: The Relationship Between Mathematics and Music

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