Talk Python To Me
Talk Python To Me
Michael Kennedy
#538: Python in Digital Humanities
1 hour 12 minutes Posted Feb 28, 2026 at 9:28 pm.
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Digital humanities sounds niche, until you realize it can mean a searchable archive of U.S. amendment proposals, Irish folklore, or pigment science in ancient art. Today I’m talking with David Flood from Harvard’s DARTH team about an unglamorous problem: What happens when the grant ends but the website can’t. His answer, static sites, client-side search, and sneaky Python. Let’s dive in.