Category Archives: Text Analysis

Is Digital Humanities Too Text-Heavy?

Last week was the marvelous international conference for digital humanities, held this year at beautiful University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Over the course of 4 days, I tried desperately to meet people I only knew from tiny Twitter pictures or gitHub or … Continue reading

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The Digital Humanities as a Movement Expressed in a Method Enshrined In a Tool

Today marks the release of the Journal of Digital Humanities 2.1, focused on topic modeling and with myself and Scott Weingart as guest editors. It is an excellent collection of material about topic models and topic modeling and their application … Continue reading

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City Nature

Today we’re releasing City Nature, the results of work exploring natural environments in urban areas using topic modeling, GIS, and data visualization. The site has rich interactivity, including an amazing parallel coordinates plot that allows you to explore the greenness … Continue reading

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Topicography

  The topography of a corpus, as represented with topic modeling to produce 100 topic clouds.

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Using Word Clouds for Topic Modeling Results

A year ago, I painstakingly formatted the topic modeling results from MALLET so that I could paste them, one by one, into Wordle. I was happy with the results, if not the workflow: First, an aside. There are folks who … Continue reading

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TV Tropes Pt. 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn

Part 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet Part 2: Trope (but not Troper) Communities Example of Thematic Relationships While it’s one thing to use network visualization to display these structures, and use analytical tools like community detection to make … Continue reading

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TVTropes Pt 2: Trope (But Not Troper) Communities

Part 1: The Weird Geometry of the Internet Part 3: If you liked Dwarf Fortress, you’ll love Twilight: Breaking Dawn Example of Thematic Relationships I received quite a few comments about the last article, most of which I haven’t approved, … Continue reading

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Book DNA Slides Posted

Matt Jockers posted the slides of our recent talk, which include some explanation of how similarity is determined.

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The Uncertainty of Influence: Do Books Have DNA?

Today, in the Stanford Humanities Center Board Room, as part of the Visualizing Uncertainty workshop that Nicole Coleman has organized, I’ll be presenting on using network analysis and visualization in the analysis of literature. Matthew Jockers and Elijah Meeks Monday, … Continue reading

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HASTAC V: The Search for More Digital Humanities

I’m here at the HASTAC conference at the beautiful and only slightly snowy University of Michigan, where Dan Atkins has explained how cyberinfrastructure works from the e-science perspective.  He notes that the NSF can’t fund “humanist” endeavors, but is amenable … Continue reading

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