Locating the Dead and Textmining the Humanities

Tim HitchcockUniversity of Hertfordshire

 

http://www.prochronism.com/

Downton Abbey dialogue compared to contemporary printed English.

http://leovip026.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Correlation/

Distribution of trial lengths in words for ‘killing’ displayed in red; all other trials in grey. ‘Killing’ includes all trials tagged as including the offences of, ‘Infanticide’, ‘murder’, ‘petty treason’, ‘manslaughter’, and ‘killing: other’, by the Old Bailey online.

Distribution of trial lengths in words for ‘killing’ displayed in red; all other trials in grey.  ‘Killing’ includes all trials tagged as including the offences of, ‘Infanticide’, ‘murder’, ‘petty treason’, ‘manslaughter’, and ‘killing: other’, by the Old Bailey online. 

Katy Börner, Plug-and-Play Macroscopes

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54 No. 3, Pages 60-6910.1145/1897852.1897871

All voyages from the Maury collection, 1784-1863. Ships tracks in black, plotted on a white background.

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/mappingthelakes/Gray%20Mapping.html

‘horse’, ‘mare’ and ‘gelding’ from the Old Bailey, mapped by ‘street’.

The geographical distribution of colours in the Old Bailey – In small blocks

Hardwicke’s Marriage Act, 1753.

http://voyant-tools.org/

Paper Machines: Main Menu

http://metalab.harvard.edu/2012/07/paper-machines/

Some of the web sites mentioned in this talk:

The Google Ngram Viewer: http://books.google.com/ngrams

Correlation Analysis and Ngram Viewer: http://leovip026.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Correlation/

Sapping Attention (Ben Schmidt’s blog): http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2011/04/age-cohort-and-vocabulary-use.html

Discontents (Tim Sherratt’s blog): http://discontents.com.au/

Datamining with Criminal Intent: http://criminalintent.org/

Visualising Urban Geographies: http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/

Locating London’s Past: http://locatinglondon.org/index.html

Voyant tools: reveal your text: http://voyant-tools.org/

Paper Machines: http://metalab.harvard.edu/2012/07/paper-machines/