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[Joe Weaks]

Paper's done for tomorrow morning's NT section of the Central States Regional SBL conference. I'm about to dazzle folks with a serious demo of Accordance.

 

Question: "How could a scholar ever record the results of 15,314 stylometric searches across 26 distinct corpora?!?"

 

Answer: "Juiced up, power using Accordance fu, Joe Weaks style."

 

Wish me luck.

 

[Julie Falling]

Well, Joe, wish I could be there, even if some of it goes over my head.  Is it being taped?  I'd love to see your demo.  Report back to us, to all of us who won't be there.  With all your prep and experience, you'll blow them away.  (I hope Accordance sales is prepared for the influx of new buyers.)

[Ken Simpson]

I'm with Julie here. I'd love to see what you do (or hear about it). I'm always looking for ideas for seminars that I run.

 

Give 'em [] Joe

[Joe Weaks]

Here's a screencast of one of the more impressive aspects. (Make sure your seatbelt is fastened   ):

 

 

 

 

Youtube link

Edited by Joe Weaks, 20 March 2013 - 02:16 AM.

[Ruben Gomez]

You really like teasing us. Don't you, Joe? 

[Ken Simpson]

Joe, I can't watch it! Can you PM or email me the youtube link? Thanks

 

This video has been removed by the user.

Sorry about that.

[Julie Falling]

Well, were they blown away?  Pretty amazing stuff.

[JonathanHuber]

Is that script in your script library?

[Joe Weaks]

Jonathan,

That script is stand-alone. If you had need of it for research you're doing, we could work something out.

[JonathanHuber]

I don't need it, just impressed and curious.

[Joe Weaks]

Jonathan, It's one thing to write a program and script that works in my little sandbox environment... it takes more time to adjust it to account for variables that will allow it to work on other machines, that's all. I'll see what I can do.

[Rick Bennett]

I've used Keyboard Maestro to do something somewhat related. It's not the same as writing an AppleScript, but can be useful for repetitive tasks.

[Alistair]

Impressive video, I really liked the bit about the sandwiches.

[Jonathan C. Borland]

The close proximity of the letters f and u are generally not considered very good Internet etiquette. Just messin with you, brother! I envy your Mac savvy!

[AbramKJ]

Jonathan: Ha! I thought that, too at first, but then realized Joe Weaks would not be saying such things to Accordance. That is one thankful lowercase "u" in "Fu."

 

Joe: this is awesome. I'm really impressed with this. As I've continued to learn Accordance, my next area I want to learn is with the automation stuff, like pasting passages from Accordance directly into a Word/TextEdit document without leaving it, etc. I know you have some videos up on that, too, so I'll look forward to watching them! Thanks for all you've contributed along those lines.

[Jonathan C. Borland]

So maybe Jujitsaccordance?

[Julie Falling]

How about Accordance Phu?  Is that one open to misinterpretation?  I'm a bit leery of some of this stuff because I'm so ignorant of the non-Christian culture.  I live in what some of us in our little corner of East Tennessee call "The Shire," and really don't know what's going on in "Mordor."

[Alistair]

From wikipedia:

 

"Kung fu… is a Chinese term referring to any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete…"

 

I think Joe has disqualified himself as this practice seems to me to have required little energy or time…

I'll grant some patience was most probably used along the way

[Joe Weaks]

This is funny. I didn't think of that potential mis-interpretation of the title, expecting it to be a hate message. This, despite the fact that I'm sure my mind is in the gutter at least as much as some of you.

The "fu" suffix here of course means "advanced skill"  ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-fu ).

And, it did take patience, energy and time to complete the script. I think I have thought of a way to make it more vanilla to distribute. Time will tell.

[craigminah]

I don't program much in Applescript or Automator so I may be wrong but I didn't see anything in either program that allowed one to control Accordance...  I'd like to know more about how this was done and if Oak Tree had any plans on adding some basic Automator actions in the future.