Software by Carolin Tietze
A set of tools that enables using 'OxCal' from within R. 'OxCal' (<https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/oxca... more A set of tools that enables using 'OxCal' from within R. 'OxCal' (<https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/oxcal.html>) is a standard archaeological tool intended to provide 14C calibration and analysis of archaeological and environmental chronological information. 'OxcAAR' allows simple calibration with 'Oxcal' and plotting of the results as well as the execution of sophisticated ('OxCal') code and the import of the results of bulk analysis and complex Bayesian sequential calibration.
With mortAAR you can calculate a life table based on archaeological demographic data. You just ne... more With mortAAR you can calculate a life table based on archaeological demographic data. You just need the number of people of a certain age, but you can also use single individual data. mortAAR allows to separate the data according to sex/location/epoch or any other grouping variable.
Conference Presentations by Carolin Tietze
This is the Call for Papers for the CAA 2019 session 05 'R as an archaeological tool: Current sta... more This is the Call for Papers for the CAA 2019 session 05 'R as an archaeological tool: Current state and directions (vol. II)'.
This is the Call for Papers for the CAA 2019 Session 07 'Teaching 2.0: Show me how you teach!'.
It is our pleasure to announce and invite your contribution to our session Creating Reproducible ... more It is our pleasure to announce and invite your contribution to our session Creating Reproducible Research. New developments in computational and quantitative methods Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each, Theme: Theories and methods in archaeological sciences Buzzwords like Big Data and modelling, derived from the so-called 'third science revolution in archaeology', currently transform the theory and practice of archaeological research into something more abstract and subjective to the researcher. However, the mere presence of a large amount of data and the collection alone is not a scientific result, whereas digital data and methods are one answer to the question of how transparency can be achieved. This is the point at which quantitative methods come into play. Research environments such as R, Python and other structured open source evaluation methods offer the possibility to recreate processes by documentation to enable Reproducible Research and Open Science. Our session is intended to provide a forum for contributions dealing with methods for managing the increasing flood of data and their transparent transfer into an archaeological interpretation. We would like to encourage potential presenters to demonstrate their individual case studies, methodological approaches and especially Reproducible Research and its application all across the different archaeologies and its many adjacent disciplines. The talk should also reflect on the difficulties their approach presents while using the tools of the 'Third Science Revolution'. Presentations concerning practical solutions such as software are particularly welcome-whether they are finished products, beta stages or conceptual designs.
To make inferences on the archaeological material that go beyond the individual object we always ... more To make inferences on the archaeological material that go beyond the individual object we always have to decide what is similar or equal and what is not. This reasoning is at the heart of the archaeological method since its beginning and describes what we understand as meaningful categories such as a type and what we try to achieve with a typology. [...] These issues are perfectly well handled when a statistical, computer based classification is applied. Especially the growing interest in pattern recognition, machine learning and the classification of information emerged within the last years, led by major information processing companies (eg. search engines and social networks). Many new and interesting approaches to this topic were developed that hopefully find their way into archaeological reasoning. In our session we would like to survey the current state-of-the-art research for the classification of archaeological datasets. The aim of the session is to provide a better understanding of classification methods and algorithms and of validation techniques. [...] We would like to welcome presentations on recent applications of machine learning, clustering approaches, and related regression methods in the field of archaeology. Presentations will explore methods for evaluating the accuracy of classifications, and investigating the implications of diferent classification methods for archaeological interpretation and understanding. Reports on how to deal with the challenges of applying modern computational methods to sparse and problematic archaeological datasets will also be included in this session. Find the full session abstract at
In recent years, R has silently become the workhorse for many quantitative archaeologists. It’s o... more In recent years, R has silently become the workhorse for many quantitative archaeologists. It’s open source, platform-independent and can be linked very well with other programming languages. [...] Nevertheless, there are still many colleagues who have not yet realised the potential of the language and how easy it is today to conduct high quality research with the available tools. [...]
Within this session we would like to explore the state of the art and the potential application of R in archaeology. We invite presentations for this session that explore questions like (but not limited to):
* What are the specific benefits of this statistical framework in the eyes of its users?
* What are the possibilities? What are the limits?
* What future directions might the usage of R in archaeology have?
* Which archaeological package has been developed, and which package still has to be developed to improve the usability of the sofware for archaeologists?
* What has to be considered to optimise the workflow with R?
We especially would like to attract colleagues who might present archaeological R packages that are ready or in the making and demonstrate their relevance for archaeological analysis. Also we would like to encourage potential presenters to demonstrate their research approaches via live coding, for which we would support them in ensuring that their presentations will work offline and on foreign hardware. [...] We
hope to foster a productive and inclusive exchange between both young and experienced users from all backgrounds.
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Software by Carolin Tietze
Conference Presentations by Carolin Tietze
Within this session we would like to explore the state of the art and the potential application of R in archaeology. We invite presentations for this session that explore questions like (but not limited to):
* What are the specific benefits of this statistical framework in the eyes of its users?
* What are the possibilities? What are the limits?
* What future directions might the usage of R in archaeology have?
* Which archaeological package has been developed, and which package still has to be developed to improve the usability of the sofware for archaeologists?
* What has to be considered to optimise the workflow with R?
We especially would like to attract colleagues who might present archaeological R packages that are ready or in the making and demonstrate their relevance for archaeological analysis. Also we would like to encourage potential presenters to demonstrate their research approaches via live coding, for which we would support them in ensuring that their presentations will work offline and on foreign hardware. [...] We
hope to foster a productive and inclusive exchange between both young and experienced users from all backgrounds.
Within this session we would like to explore the state of the art and the potential application of R in archaeology. We invite presentations for this session that explore questions like (but not limited to):
* What are the specific benefits of this statistical framework in the eyes of its users?
* What are the possibilities? What are the limits?
* What future directions might the usage of R in archaeology have?
* Which archaeological package has been developed, and which package still has to be developed to improve the usability of the sofware for archaeologists?
* What has to be considered to optimise the workflow with R?
We especially would like to attract colleagues who might present archaeological R packages that are ready or in the making and demonstrate their relevance for archaeological analysis. Also we would like to encourage potential presenters to demonstrate their research approaches via live coding, for which we would support them in ensuring that their presentations will work offline and on foreign hardware. [...] We
hope to foster a productive and inclusive exchange between both young and experienced users from all backgrounds.