Week-07

Discuss Readings - Pedagogy of Computer-Assisted Text Analysis

 * Brief discussion of approaches:
 * [|DHPed] 10. T eaching Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell.

Recipes: Voyant / Computer Assisted Text Analysis

 * Work in a pair or group of three with one of these "recipes";
 * Adapt as needed for Voyant
 * Visualize Scholarly Trends | Verify Authorship | Comparision | Concordance (Exploration - Terms in Context) | Analyze Blog Discourse
 * Share a snippet that provides some promising insight..

Theme activity
//What is a theme or question you might explore in one of these corpuses? What would the recipe for doing so look like?//


 * 1) Five works of pre-20th c. Literary Criticism (edited Stop list, not clean texts).
 * 2) Virginia Woolf - Five Texts
 * 3) 14 Obama Speeches
 * 4) States of Union
 * 5) Six Inauguration Speeches

Discussion (if time allows)

 * [|LDSA] Tanya Clement, “T [|ext Analysis, Data Mining, and Visualizations in Literary Scholarship”]

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Homework: Read Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count. Sinclair and Rockwell. NewCompDH - CH 19.====== Work on your Voyant visualization.

Visualization

 * Discussion of parameters for the next mini-project -
 * Description / Rubric: Voyant Visualization.
 * Examples: Ben, Cara, Chris, Lynn, Abdulaziz, Julia
 * Preparing texts for visualization. (cleanup)
 * Text editor
 * File naming
 * Finer points of Voyant use
 * (Stopwords, Whitelist, Segmentation; different "views"/tools, how to calibrate and how to interpret)
 * Exporting and Saving
 * widgets
 * links
 * images (static)