http://tedunderwood.com Historical questions raised by a quantitative approach to language Tue, 14 May 2013 12:30:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/5711d96c6104f89617e0747253c8acb4?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://tedunderwood.com http://tedunderwood.com/2013/05/10/why-it-matters-that-we-dont-know-what-we-mean-by-big-data/ http://tedunderwood.com/2013/05/10/why-it-matters-that-we-dont-know-what-we-mean-by-big-data/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 13:36:43 +0000 tedunderwood http://tedunderwood.com/?p=4314 Continue reading →]]> http://tedunderwood.com/2013/05/10/why-it-matters-that-we-dont-know-what-we-mean-by-big-data/feed/ 0 tedunderwood 800px-Looking_Up_at_Empire_State_Building http://tedunderwood.com/2013/05/08/a-new-approach-to-the-history-of-character/ http://tedunderwood.com/2013/05/08/a-new-approach-to-the-history-of-character/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 13:29:04 +0000 tedunderwood http://tedunderwood.com/?p=4288 Continue reading →]]> http://tedunderwood.com/2013/05/08/a-new-approach-to-the-history-of-character/feed/ 8 tedunderwood Emotion-Masks-760092 http://tedunderwood.com/2013/04/21/on-trolling/ http://tedunderwood.com/2013/04/21/on-trolling/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:30:02 +0000 tedunderwood http://tedunderwood.com/?p=4242 Continue reading →]]> http://tedunderwood.com/2013/04/21/on-trolling/feed/ 4 tedunderwood "Troll," by Jolande RM, CC-BY-NC-ND. 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The same question posed to two different collections. 773 hand-selected first editions on the left; on the right, 47,549 volumes, including many translations and reprints. pullquote http://tedunderwood.com/2013/02/20/wordcounts-are-amazing/ http://tedunderwood.com/2013/02/20/wordcounts-are-amazing/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:34:55 +0000 tedunderwood http://tedunderwood.com/?p=4043 Continue reading →]]> http://tedunderwood.com/2013/02/20/wordcounts-are-amazing/feed/ 6 tedunderwood Billy Graham, 1949, from the Galt Museum, on Creative Commons. http://tedunderwood.com/2013/02/08/we-dont-already-know-the-broad-outlines-of-literary-history/ http://tedunderwood.com/2013/02/08/we-dont-already-know-the-broad-outlines-of-literary-history/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:42:20 +0000 tedunderwood http://tedunderwood.com/?p=3911 Continue reading →]]> http://tedunderwood.com/2013/02/08/we-dont-already-know-the-broad-outlines-of-literary-history/feed/ 26 tedunderwood The broad contours of our discipline are already known, so nothing can grow without displacing something else. blurriness Confusion matrix from an ensemble of naive Bayes classifiers. (432 test documents held out from a larger sample of 1356.) AbsoluteNumberOfFicVols Ratio Features consistently more common in first- or third-person narration, ranked by Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon rho. 170POV The ratio between raw counts of first- and third-person pronouns in fiction. http://tedunderwood.com/2013/01/20/on-the-novelty-of-humanistic-values/ http://tedunderwood.com/2013/01/20/on-the-novelty-of-humanistic-values/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:58:44 +0000 tedunderwood http://tedunderwood.com/?p=3800 Continue reading →]]> http://tedunderwood.com/2013/01/20/on-the-novelty-of-humanistic-values/feed/ 16 tedunderwood The crisis of the humanities, as seen in Google Books. humanities lithist http://tedunderwood.com/2012/12/14/what-can-topic-models-of-pmla-teach-us-about-the-history-of-literary-scholarship/ http://tedunderwood.com/2012/12/14/what-can-topic-models-of-pmla-teach-us-about-the-history-of-literary-scholarship/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:28:08 +0000 tedunderwood http://tedunderwood.com/?p=3462 Continue reading →]]> http://tedunderwood.com/2012/12/14/what-can-topic-models-of-pmla-teach-us-about-the-history-of-literary-scholarship/feed/ 58 tedunderwood A browsable network based on Underwood's model of PMLA. Click through, then mouse over or click on individual topics. 100 topics from PMLA. topic59line Topic 109 from Underwood's model of 150 topics. Topic 79 from Underwood's 150-topic model. A browsable image map of 150 topics from PMLA. After you click through you can mouseover (or click) individual topics for more information. Goldstone's 100-topic model of PMLA; click through to enlarge. Topic 38 from Goldstone's model, moving averages Document proportions of topic 40 from Goldstone's model, binned in ten year-intervals http://tedunderwood.com/2012/12/02/visualizing-topic-models-with-force-directed-graphs/ http://tedunderwood.com/2012/12/02/visualizing-topic-models-with-force-directed-graphs/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:02:26 +0000 michael_simeone http://tedunderwood.com/?p=3383 Continue reading →]]> http://tedunderwood.com/2012/12/02/visualizing-topic-models-with-force-directed-graphs/feed/ 6 octopushats headline Main TM cellplot49 cellplot99 cellalt49