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- Bring text to play with in Voyant. Input format can be plain text, a PDF (with OCR), a MS Word Document or a URL for HTML analysis. Upload of any material will be subject to the Voyant privacy policy, so bring text you can safely share.
- Bring a laptop to support your explorations.
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- Explore visualizations. Change the options in the dashboard.
- Discuss the relative merits of the various visualizations.
(2) Exerting control
- stopwords
- slider for word counts
- counts vs frequencies
(3) General questions
- What does exerting control do to our results? Does it change the validity of our assertions?
- What is signal? What is noise?
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Google's nGram Viewer. Use the links below as starting points; dynamic modifications can be made at any point. Rules for syntax can be found on the About page.
- graffiti - let's start with this, and make it more meaningful
- "Ralph Ellison" and "Invisible Man
- "lyric/lyrics"
- "Jarndyce and Jarndyce" and "Bleak House"
- lot,urban renewal,gentrification
HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Bookworm
- monster in fiction/non-fiction/unknown
- mystery (contrast fiction and nonfiction)
- Various words for "creole"
General questions for discussion
- How easily can these examples above be refined and improved?
- Compare the various interfaces, especially as to the affordances and the limits of each.
- What Are there additional elements of control would be useful that aren't currently available? If so, what would these be?
- When we see unexpected wave forms, what do we make of these?
- Are these important discoveries
- or flaws? How can we distinguish?
- Would the flaws be due to the data, the metadata, the algorithms?
More Macroanalysis with HTRC
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