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TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND DATA VISUALIZATION
TOOLS FOR THE CLASSROOMDigital Humanities Faculty Workshop Series
Fall 2017
Dr. Stephen GrandchampVisiting Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities
September 27, 2017
Agenda• DefinitionofTextualAnalysisandDataVisualization
• TheoryofTextualAnalysisandDataVisualization
• Recap:VoyantTools
• Example:Lexos
• Activity
• Questions/Discussion
Definitions• TextualAnalysis• theprocessofexamininglargeamountsofwordswithabroadviewinordertoidentifykeymomentsorinterestingtrends
• DataVisualization• theprocessbywhichtheresultsoftextualanalysisarepresentedinvisualform(forinstance:chartsandgraphs)
Traditionally,humanitiesscholarscarryingoutresearchonaspecificormultipleliterarywork(s)areinterestedintheanalysisofrelatedtextsortextpassages.Butthedigitalagehasopenedpossibilitiesforthescholarstoenhancetheirtraditionalworkflows.Enabledbydigitizationprojects,humanitiesscholarscannowadaysreachavastamountofdigitizedtextsthroughwebportalssuchasGoogleBooksandInternetArchive…Thisshiftfromreadingasinglebook“onpaper”tothepossibilityofbrowsingmanydigitaltextsisoneoftheoriginsandprincipalpillarsofthedigitalhumanitiesdomain.
-S.Jänicke,G.Franzini,M.F.Cheema,andG.Scheuermann“OnCloseandDistantReadinginDigitalHumanities:ASurveyandFutureChallenges”
Whattransformeddisciplinarycoherencemightliterarystudiesembrace?Hereisasuggestion:literarystudiesteachesliteraciesacrossarangeofmediaforms,includingprintanddigital,andfocusesoninterpretationandanalysisofpatterns,meaning,andcontextthroughclose,hyper-,andmachinereadingpractices.Readinghasalwaysbeenconstitutedthroughcomplexanddiversepractices.Nowitistimetorethinkwhatreadingisandhowitworksintherichmixturesofwordsandimages,soundsandanimations,graphicsandlettersthatconstitutetheenvironmentsoftwenty-first-centuryliteracies.
-N.KatherineHayles“HowWeRead:Close,Hyper,Machine”
Voyant Tools• Open-sourceapplication
• Freedesktopversion
• Freeweb-basedversion
• Severaltoolsforanalysisofcorpus
• Severalmethodsofvisualization
• Bestforsmallnumberoftexts(2-3full-lengthwords)
• Accessibleat:voyant-tools.org
Lexos• UsefultoolforlexicalanalysisdevelopedbyWheatonCollege
• Visualization-friendly
• Download-friendly
• Easyforcomparisonofseveraldocuments
• Suitableforstudentuseinblendedapproachwithclosereading
Activity• Gotogutenberg.org
• Searchforpre-20th centurybook
• Click“PlainTextUTF-8”
• Click“File”and“SavePageAs”
• SavetoDesktopinPlainText(.txt)format
• Openanddeleteintroductoryandconcludinginformation
• Click“File”and“Save”
Activity• Dragintoboxinlexos.wheatoncollege.edu
• Google”stopwordstxt”
• ClickPrincetonlink
• Click“Edit”andthen“SelectAll”
• Click“Edit”andthen“Copy”
• PasteintoStopWordboxonlexos.wheatoncollege.edu
• Playwiththetoolsweexplored
COLLABORATIVE ARCHIVES OF STUDENT WORK
Wednesday, October 11, 201712 pm
Ames 129Lunch Provided
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