Class 3 Notes

Preliminary Class Business

Enrollment (& add codes for those who need them)
Instructor's Office Hours: Wed., 2-3, South Hall 2521
How To's

Leaving "souvenirs" on the Student Work site for your practicums--e.g., Practicum for Class 3
Class Bios assignment (due by class 4)
Class Members page

Adjusting image sizes, placement, etc.

Preview of Assignments for Class 4

See Lacie Smith's practicum for today

1. Encountering the Google Books Ngram Viewer (continued) and Other Digital Tools

More examples of your Google Books Ngram Viewer exercises from last class:

Heeba Kaleem's exercise
Ian Kavanaugh's exercise with "Future,Present,Past"
Student exercises with "TV,Computer,Radio", etc.
Be sure to check out Google's "About Ngram Viewer" page (abbreviated version: Google Books Ngram Viewer Cheat Sheet)

See also: Hathi Trust Bookworm

Bookworm:Movies viewer | Bookworm:Simpsons

Today's practicum: Explore DH Tools -- Instructor's DH Toychest site

Student practicum "souvenirs" of their experiments with a tool

Text Analysis

Voyeur (Voyant) Tools

Ricky Miller

Sentiment Analysis tool

Tristan Denton

Umigon

Samuel Beeler

Poem Viewer

Prism

Mapping

Odyssey.js

Benjamin Chan

Neatline

Edward Moss

2. "Distant Reading"

Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (2005)

Opening paragraph (p. 1)
Figure 2 (p. 7)
Figure 3 (p. 10)
Figure 7 (p. 15)
Figure 9 (p. 19)
(p. 4)
(p. 13)
(pp. 20-21)
(pp. 14, 25n.)
(p. 26)

Other References That Might Help Class Discussion:

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
"Annals" historical method
Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2nd rev. ed., 2 vols., trans. Siân Reynolds
TAPoR
Bradford Paley, TextArc
Jeremy Douglass, Cultural Analytics of Mark Rothko Paintings

3. Preview of Assignments for Class 4

Class 4