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My name is Ben Feist. This site contains articles and blog entries that I have written over the years. Popular articles are in the top navigation. By day I am the Head of Creative Technology at TAXI. If you'd like to reach me you can find me on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Digitizing Apollo 17 Part 8 – Changing The Clocks
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It has been a month or so since my last report on my progress. I have been making consistent headway on correcting the transcript while reassembling the timeline in Adobe Premiere as I go. As of today I’ve corrected the transcript to 112:46:30, which is just after they landed on the Moon and got the GO…

Digitizing Apollo 17 Part 7 – Listening in Real Time
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I’ve spent many hours now listening in real time to the audio timeline that I have partially reconstructed in Premiere (which I described in my previous post). I’m 21 hours, 48 minutes into the mission (plus the two hours of commentary leading up to the launch). There have been some segments of missing audio and there…

Digitizing Apollo 17 Part 6 – Timeline Reconstruction
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When tabling and OCRing all of the transcript pages, running python cleanup procedures and manually running search and replace rules, I had a lot of time to think about this project and where it might lead. The underlying thought that I kept coming back to is that I’m re-establishing a cohesive chain of events that occurred over…

Digitizing Apollo 17 Part 5 – Python Processing
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Now that the TEC and PAO transcript data is in pipe-delimited CSV format, I can start to use batch cleansing techniques to further clean the raw OCR output data (CSV) into 2nd phase cleaned CSV. These processes are all automated tasks with no manual intervention. Once again, I did this purposely to keep the string…

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