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• a few racist objects
• Women authors of color
• computer and cybernetics - broken out by language
• enslaved * (This link will yield an error, but simply click on the blue button marked "search lots of books" and the error will resolve.)
• different types of alleys (This link will yield an error, but simply click on the blue button marked "search lots of books" and the error will resolve.)
• Seaports of the Mediterranean - note groupings by country. 

HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Bookworm (Tied to a corpus pre-1923). Again, consider these links as starting points.  Rules for faceting ad controls are available on the HTRC wiki. 

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• How can these examples above be refined and improved?
• Compare the two interfaces, especially as to the affordances and the limits of each. 
• What additional elements of control would be useful that aren't available?
• When we see unexpected or entirely expected wave forms, what do we make of these? 
  
  • How much can we read into coorelations?
  • Do these constitute discoveries or represent errors?  How can we distinguish?
  • Would the flaws be due to the data, the metadata, the algorithms?
• Are there lenses that we should be wary of?

More Macroanalysis: HTRC

HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a collaborative research center (jointly managed by Indiana University and the University of Illinois) dedicated to developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure that enable advanced computational access to large amounts of digital text. A basic orientation of HTRC services is available, and features and steps for each are documented on the HTRC community wiki.  We will be spending time in the HTRC Portal looking at the results of a few algorithms as a sampling of possibilities (links below will not render for all, but are parked to make sharing easier).  Algorithms in the portal can

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