Bill Wolff, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

research

  • when genes look like texts and texts look like something else

    An article in the November 10, 2008, edition of The New York Times by Carl Zimmer, “Now: The Rest of the Genome,” discusses the thoroughly fascinating (and exceedingly difficult) of mapping the human genome. The article includes this gorgeous graphic, “Mapping the Epigenome” (click image to enlarge): Upon first viewing the image I was…

  • on open source data analysis applications

    Those you who have been following Clay Spinuzzi on Twitter know that he has been starting to gather data for his latest study (his latest book, Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications just came out in hardback from Columbia UP). He mentioned in one of his tweets that he ought to blog about the…