Paper machines (7 October 2014)

Jo Guldi, Asst. Prof., Britain and its Empire, Brown University

s.v.p. tweet @joguldi & @papermachines

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Basic start-up

• Create an account at Zotero - zotero.org

• Download & Install the Zotero app - zotero.org/downloads

• Grab a buncha texts (ocr’d, full-text pdfs, good metadata)

• Download & Install Paper Machines: www.papermachines.org

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Chicago, 1950

Chicago, 1950

Mentions of places from newsletters and articles about participatory maps, 1936-2013.

Tool: Paper Machines HeatmapWednesday, November 6, 13

Mentions of places from novels and memoirs about tramping, 1880-1930.

Tool: Zotero Maps.Wednesday, November 6, 13

Topics about peasants, land, and Brazil, hand-curated corpus of essays about land reform,1880-2000.

Tool: Paper Machines Topic Modeling, based on Mallet by David Mimno.Wednesday, November 6, 13

Who cares about budgets vs. who cares about coops? different agencies at the UN Food and Agriculture

Office, c. 1946-1990

Tool: Mallet, Topic Modeling Software, by David Mimno,

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Flight  paths:  men/ons  of  places  in  books  about  land  reforms  printed  in  other  places,  1880-­‐2011.    

Tool:  Paper  Machines  Geoparser/Flight  paths

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What is it good for?• A macroscope on long-term change

• Illustrating the context of your work in brief; condensing historiography for outsiders

• Identifying parts of a corpus to examine more closely; comparing different authors, moments, offices

• A hypothesis generation machineWednesday, November 6, 13

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