Locating the Dead and Textmining the Humanities Tim Hitchcock University of Hertfordshire

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Locating the Dead and Textmining the Humanities Tim Hitchcock University of Hertfordshire Slide 2 Slide 3 http://www.prochronism.com/ Downton Abbey dialogue compared to contemporary printed English. Slide 4 http://leovip026.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Correlation / Slide 5 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. Slide 6 Slide 7 Katy Brner, Plug-and-Play Macroscopes Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54 No. 3, Pages 60-69 10.1145/1897852.1897871 Slide 8 Slide 9 All voyages from the Maury collection, 1784-1863. Ships tracks in black, plotted on a white background. Slide 10 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/mappingthelakes/Gray%20Mapping.html Slide 11 horse, mare and gelding from the Old Bailey, mapped by street. Slide 12 The geographical distribution of colours in the Old Bailey In small blocks Slide 13 Hardwickes Marriage Act, 1753. http://voyant-tools.org/ Slide 14 Paper Machines: Main Menu http://metalab.harvard.edu/2012/07/paper-machines/ Slide 15 Slide 16 Slide 17 Slide 18 Slide 19 Some of the web sites mentioned in this talk: The Google Ngram Viewer: http://books.google.com/ngramshttp://books.google.com/ngrams Correlation Analysis and Ngram Viewer: http://leovip026.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Correlation/http://leovip026.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Correlation/ Sapping Attention (Ben Schmidts blog): http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2011/04/age-cohort-and-vocabulary- use.html http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2011/04/age-cohort-and-vocabulary- use.html Discontents (Tim Sherratts blog): http://discontents.com.au/http://discontents.com.au/ Datamining with Criminal Intent: http://criminalintent.org/http://criminalintent.org/ Visualising Urban Geographies: http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/ Locating Londons Past: http://locatinglondon.org/index.htmlhttp://locatinglondon.org/index.html Voyant tools: reveal your text: http://voyant-tools.org/http://voyant-tools.org/ Paper Machines: http://metalab.harvard.edu/2012/07/paper-machines/http://metalab.harvard.edu/2012/07/paper-machines/