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Phyllis Diller Gag File

Comedy and AI: Analyzing the Phyllis Diller Gag File through Machine Learning
The American comedian Phyllis Diller donated a collection of 52,000 jokes to the Smithsonian Institution, known as the Gag File. Here, we use Python, machine learning, and…
William J.B. Mattingly
Jun 26, 2023

a bario fish

Machine Learning of Amazonian Fish
As part of his work with the Data Science Lab and SCBI, former graduate student fellow Dr. Alex Robillard publishes a new machine learning model trained to identify…
Alex White
May 1, 2023

Manali sanctuary in India where large numbers of temperate and tropical birds converge to form complex ecological structure

Ecostructure
A vignette for ecostructure, an R package for clustering and visualization of ecological strucutre across local, regional, phylogenetic, and functional axes of assemblage…
Alex White
Apr 24, 2023

Year of Open Science graphic

The Year of Open Science
The Smithsonian Data Science Lab is proud to support the Smithsonian’s effort to celebrate the benefits of open science and expand the adoption of open science practices…
Alex White
Apr 19, 2023

Frances Theresa Densmore, Betty Jane Meggers, and Matilda Stevenson, each woman a member of the Anthropology Department at the National Museum of Natural History.

Uncovering the scientific impact of women at the Smithsonian
Inspired by the immense research output and strong mentoring ethos of the late Vicki Funk, Drs. Dikow and Tsuchiya use machine learning to explore the historical archives of…
Rebecca Dikow and Mirian Tsuchiya
Oct 22, 2020

Thistle specimen and illustration by MV Walcott

What’s in a name?
An investigation of digitized museum records reveals how the historical contributions of women are obscured in the vast digitized Smithsonian collections. Our intern Tiana…
Rebecca Dikow and Megan Glenn
Apr 14, 2020
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