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Boyle's description of a controversial, leaky air-pump.2021-12-05T17:30:22+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2021/10/21/latent-spaces-of-culture/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/smallerparrot.jpgsmallerparrot2021-10-21T13:24:31+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2021/02/02/why-sf-hasnt-prepared-us-to-imagine-machine-learning/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/screen-shot-2021-02-07-at-7.41.34-am-e1613362629711.pngScreen Shot 2021-02-07?ver2https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/screen-shot-2021-02-02-at-7.43.04-am-e1613362601717.pngScreen Shot 2021-02-02 at 7.43.04 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Boxplots are logistic regression on bags of words; we run 30 train/test/validation splits and plot the variation. For BERT, I ran a half-dozen models for each genre and plotted the best result here. Small b is accuracy on individual chunks; capital B after aggregating predictions at volume level. All models use 250 volumes evenly drawn from positive and negative classes.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sentiment.jpegsentimentModeling the IMDb dataset from Maas et al.; the "best BoW" figure is taken from their paper.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/scarybert.jpegscarybertCredit for meme goes to @Rachellescary.2021-02-08T12:17:14+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/12/27/why-we-dont-actually-want-to-be-the-next-thing-in-literary-studies/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/827a7c3848d6ad39eb45c050d6a9_grande1.jpgVacuum tubes from a 1950s computer.Vacuum tubes from a 1950s computer. Creative commons license: Shieldforyoureyes.2019-07-16T04:15:11+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/08/14/where-to-start-with-text-mining/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ocr2.jpgOCR2What you may see as OCR.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/motherlittle.pngMotherLittlehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/lovelife2.pngLoveLife2https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/wordsworthwordle1.jpgWordsworthWordleWords that are consistently more common in works by William Wordsworth than in other poets from 1780 to 1850. I've used Wordle's graphics, but the words have been selected by a Mann-Whitney test, which measures overrepresentation relative to a context -- not by Wordle's own (context-free) method. See the R script at the end of this post.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/wordsworthwordle.jpgWordsworthWordlehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ocr2.pngOCR2What you may get as OCR.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/smellie2.pngSmellie2What you see in a page image.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/byronwordle1.jpgByronWordleWords that are consistently more common in works by Byron than in other nineteenth-century poets. I've used Wordle's graphics, but the words have been selected by corpus comparison, using Mann-Whitney rho as a measure of overrepresentation -- not by Wordle's own (context-free) method. See the R script at the end of this post.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/byronwordle.jpgByronWordlehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/delisensirefi1.jpgDeliSensiRefiWords whose frequencies correlate strongly over time are often related in other ways as well. Ngram viewer by Auvil, Capitanu, Heuser and Underwood, based on corrected Google dataset.2018-10-09T20:35:47+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2015/08/07/a-dataset-for-distant-reading-literature-in-english-1700-1922/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/travertine1.jpgtravertineThree big blocks of stone. Like collections, these don't represent anything in particular. But the corpus you want to create might be contained somewhere within them.2018-09-10T13:01:42+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2018/07/26/do-topic-models-warp-time/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/timeunwarped.jpgtimeunwarpedhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/xanda.pngxandahttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/rainbow.jpgrainbowhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/timewarp.jpgtimewarphttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/seconddiscovery.jpgseconddiscoveryhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/firstdiscovery.jpgfirstdiscovery2018-07-26T13:27:10+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2018/06/01/remarks-for-a-panel-on-data-science-in-literary-studies-in-2028/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/32768f0400000578-3504667-most_scientists_agree_that_sea_levels_will_rise_but_some_say_it_-a-3_1458668971088.jpg32768F0400000578-3504667-Most_scientists_agree_that_sea_levels_will_rise_but_some_say_it_-a-3_14586689710882018-06-01T14:29:48+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2018/02/28/raising-the-standards-for-computation-in-the-humanities/2024-03-14T11:34:54+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/ted-underwood/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/slytherinbust.pngSlytherinBusthttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/phragmipedium.jpgphragmipediumhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/alliumroses.jpgalliumroseshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/teacup.pngteacuphttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/umbrellaella.pngUmbrellaElla2018-02-13T19:22:20+00:00weekly0.6https://tedunderwood.com/2018/01/04/a-broader-purpose/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/dooropen.jpgdooropenhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/faux-door-cool-mural.jpgTrompe l'oeil door muralTrompe l'oeil faux door mural from www.bumblebee murals.com/cool-wall-murals/2018-01-07T14:34:05+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2016/01/09/the-instability-of-gender/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/eyeshairface.jpegeyeshairfacehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/jawchest.jpegjawchesthttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/roominhouse.jpegroominhousehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/squarejaw.jpgsquarejawFrom the Famous Artists' School course materials. "The male head is square and angular, with a strong jaw."https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/heartmind.jpegheartmindhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/boxplot2.jpegboxplot2Boxplots for 12 regularized logistic models in each decade; each model included 750 male and 750 female characters, randomly selected with the proviso that the median character size was always 51 words, and characters with less than 15 words were excluded.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/helpful.jpghelpful2018-01-04T22:51:22+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2017/09/21/it-looks-like-youre-writing-an-argument-against-data-in-literary-study/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tuchman.jpgtuchman2017-09-21T17:27:43+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2017/07/13/were-probably-due-for-another-discussion-of-stanley-fish/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fish.jpgfishA school of yellow-tailed goat fish. 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The y axis reports cosine distances between adjacent segments. The red lines indicate the mean pace of change in statistically different segments of the timeline.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/randomizedmauch.jpgRandomizedMauchDistance matrix produced by scrambling the temporal sequence of data in Mauch et al. "The Evolution of Popular Music."2016-02-25T13:02:57+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/14/why-dh-has-no-future/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tomstone.jpgtomstoneCreative commons BY-NC-SA 1.0: bigadventures.2016-01-17T18:08:58+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2015/12/02/emerging-conversations-between-literary-history-and-sociology/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/looking-glass.jpglooking glassJariSchroderus, "Through the Looking Glass," 2006, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/bakertweet.jpgBakerTweet2015-12-05T13:02:17+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/simplemodel.jpegsimplemodelA very simple, imaginary statistical model that distinguishes pages of poetry from pages of prose.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/fugitive.jpgFugitivehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/fig1.jpegFig1A very simple statistical model of the difference between poetry and prose.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/treehouse.jpgtreehouseA model treehouse, by Austin and Zak -- CC-NC-SA.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/casualmap1.jpgcasualmaphttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/harlemren.jpgHarlemRenA detail from Fig 7 in So and Long, "Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism."https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/xkcd1.jpgxkcdDetail from an xkcd cartoon.2015-11-30T19:14:00+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2015/10/03/can-we-date-revolutions-in-the-history-of-literature-and-music/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/myfoote2.jpgmyfooteHeatmap and Foote novelty for 1000 novels, 1820-1919. Rises in the trend lines correspond to increased Foote novelty.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/truerandom.jpgtruerandomA heatmap produced by randomly scrambling the fifty two-year periods in the corpus. The "dates" on the timeline are now meaningless.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/byyear.jpegbyyearhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/f5-large.jpgF5.largeFigure 5 from Mauch, et. al., "The evolution of popular music" (RSOS 2015).2015-11-08T16:47:30+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2015/09/07/digital-humanities-might-never-be-evenly-distributed/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/liudhmap.jpgLiuDHMapAlan Liu, "Map of Digital Humanities" -- photo by Quinn Dombrowski, August 17, 2015. CC-BY-SA.2015-09-08T12:38:16+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2015/05/18/how-quickly-do-literary-standards-change/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/laborodes.jpgLaborOdeshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/plotonequarter.jpegplotonequarterA model trained only on evidence from 1845-69 makes predictions about the other 75 years in the dataset.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/plotmainmodelannotate.jpegplotmainmodelannotatehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/forblog1.jpegforblog12015-08-07T19:18:35+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2015/03/24/why-its-hard-for-syuzhet-to-be-right-or-wrong-yet/2015-04-01T11:38:32+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/01/28/syllabus-engl581-digital-tools-and-critical-theory/2015-01-31T16:19:10+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2015/01/16/syllabus-for-a-graduate-seminar/2015-01-17T16:12:14+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2015/01/03/plot-arcs-in-the-novel/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/threeperiods.jpegthreeperiodsGeneralized narrative arcs for 4,000 works of fiction from 1700 to 1922. Very few of them are actually before 1800, though.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/predictiveparabola.jpegpredictiveparabolaThe average probabilities two classifiers assigned to segments from different "tenths" of 1,981 novels. Five-fold crossvalidated, but I didn't rule out the possibility that an author might appear in both the test set and the training set.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/authors.jpegauthorsEach author here is represented by a composite set of ten segments of narrative time, produced by averaging her works.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/axesv2.jpegaxesv2Vectors that play an especially strong role in organizing the PCA projection of 1,981 nineteenth-century novels.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/v2fiction.jpegv2fictionTen points that represent composite "tenths" of 1.981 works of fiction, topic-modeled projected by PCA. Multivolume works have been joined.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nonfiction.jpegnonfictionhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/arcs.pngBen Schmidt's viz of plot arcs.Benjamin Schmidt's initial visualization of "plot arcs," December 16, 2014.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/cubes.jpegcubes2015-01-06T19:44:24+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/tech-notes/2015-01-05T18:30:56+00:00weekly0.6https://tedunderwood.com/2014/12/29/how-to-find-english-language-fiction-poetry-and-drama-in-hathitrust/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pagepercentages.jpegpagepercentagesThe relative sizes of different genres, represented as a percentage of pages in the English-language portion of HathiTrust. 854,476 volumes are covered. Nonfiction, front matter, and back matter aren't represented here. Results have been smoothed with a five-year moving average.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ads.jpegadsPercentage of pages in mostly-fiction volumes that are ads. Based on a filtered collection of 102,349 mostly-fiction volumes selected from a larger group of 854,476 volumes 1700-1922.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/8vo.jpeg8voFrequencies of "$", "8vo" (octavo) and "cloth" in Google's "English Fiction" collection, 1800-1950.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sixpence.jpegsixpenceFrequencies of "$" and "6d" in Google's "English Fiction" collection, 1800-1950.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/finalfreq.jpegFrequency of reference to money.Frequency of reference to "specific amounts" of money in 7,700 English-language works of fiction.2014-12-31T13:59:56+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2014/10/22/distant-reading-and-the-blurry-edges-of-genre/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shinkah-copy.jpgShinkah copyThis is both a photograph of a real, unnamed mother and baby, and of a fictional character named Shinkah. Frontispiece to <em>Shinkah, The Osage Indian.</em>2016-06-20T11:52:38+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/09/11/hold-on-loosely-or-gemeinschaft-and-gesellschaft-on-the-web/2014-10-16T12:51:17+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/03/02/literary-and-nonliterary-diction-the-sequel/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/nonlit1150.pngNonLit1150https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/nonpoetoficcossim.pngNonPoeToFicCossimhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/fictionnoncossim.pngFictionNonCossimhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/poetofictionspear9.pngPoeToFictionSpear9https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/fictiontononspear.pngFictionToNonSpear2014-09-24T14:52:18+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2014/01/14/new-models-of-literary-collectivity/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leviathan_sv.jpgleviathan_sv2014-09-03T19:38:56+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/02/26/the-differentiation-of-literary-and-nonliterary-diction-1700-1900/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/rigorouscorpussize.pngRigorousCorpusSizehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/revisedyearlyfictvpoe.pngRevisedYearlyFictVPoehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/revisedfictbiog.pngRevisedFictBioghttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fictiondown1.pngFictionDownhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fictiondown.pngFictionDownhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fictionup1.pngFictionUphttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fictionup.pngFictionUphttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/toplate19cfiction.pngTopLate19cFictionhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fictionvpoetry.pngFictionVPoetryhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/yearlyfictionbiog.pngYearlyFictionBiog2014-08-28T14:38:25+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/03/17/a-selection-of-the-language-really-spoken-by-men/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/eccooverall.jpgECCOoverallAll the genres in the ECCO-TCP corpus, added together.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dramapoetry.jpgDramaPoetryhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/fictionandnon.jpgFictionAndNonhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/500mostcommon.jpg500MostCommonThe changing frequency of pre-12c English words.2014-08-20T02:10:47+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/04/19/trends-topics-and-trending-topics/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mannerstree1.jpgMannersTreea topic tree created by finding words that correlate with "manners," and then clustering them based on co-occurrence in 18c bookshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mannerstree.jpgMannersTreea section of a "topic tree" produced by first generating a list of words that correlate with "manners," and then clustering them based on co-occurrence in 18c. bookshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/smallertree.jpgSmallerTreea section of a "topic tree" produced by first generating a list of words that correlate with "manners," and then clustering them based on co-occurrence in 18c. bookshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/animattenardour.jpgAnimAttenArdourproduced with my own graphing module, which is better in the 18c, since it merges capitalized and uncapitalized formshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2011colors.jpg2011colorsblue, red, green, yellow, in the English corpus 1750-20002014-07-05T04:40:42+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/26/the-obvious-thing-were-lacking/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/12-mrs-eaves-just-ligatures.jpg12-mrs-eaves-just-ligaturesIf you've ever had to correct OCR, these ligatures probably bring back some fond memories!2014-06-20T12:25:39+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/04/21/on-trolling/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/troll1.jpgtroll"Troll," by Jolande RM, CC-BY-NC-ND.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/socrates.jpgsocrates"Socrates," photo by Sebastià Giralt, CC-BY-NC-SAhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/troll.jpgtroll"Troll," by Jolande RM, CC-BY-NC-ND.2014-06-19T12:42:49+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2014/06/03/a-window-on-the-twentieth-century-may-be-about-to-open/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/rayoflight.jpgRayOfLight"Ray of Light," Russell H Cribb, 2006. CC-BY 2.0.2023-01-15T12:53:37+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/02/20/wordcounts-are-amazing/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/baby.jpgbabyBilly Graham, 1949, from the Galt Museum, on Creative Commons.2014-05-30T11:51:04+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/06/29/why-humanists-need-to-understand-text-mining/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/altavista460.jpgaltavista460The AltaVista search page, circa 1996. This was the moment to freak out about text mining.2014-05-29T14:34:58+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/12/14/the-imaginary-conflicts-disciplines-create/2014-05-21T16:09:55+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2014/05/03/you-cant-govern-reception/2014-05-10T14:47:31+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/10/07/the-challenges-of-digital-work-on-early-19c-collections/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/corrected2.pngCorrected2Automatically corrected version.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ocr2.pngOCR2OCR version of Smellie, contributed by Columbia University Libraries to the Internet Archive.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/smellie2.pngSmellie2Literary and Characteristical Lives (1800), by William and Alexander Smellie.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ocr.pngOCROCR version of Smellie, contributed by Columbia University Libraries to the Internet Archive.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/smellie.pngsmellieLiterary and Characteristical Lives (1800), William Smellie.2014-05-09T19:25:31+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/11/09/identifying-the-terms-that-characterize-an-author-or-genre-why-dunnings-may-not-be-the-best-method/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/poeticdiction1.pngPoeticDictionhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/byrho1.pngByRhohttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/canto2.pngCantohttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mannwhitney2.pngMannWhitneyhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/dunnings1.pngDunningshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/poeticdiction.pngPoeticDictionhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/distinctiveness.pngdistinctivenesshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/byrho.pngByRhohttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/canto1.pngCantohttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/canto.pngCanto2014-05-09T11:39:46+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/07/topic-modeling-made-just-simple-enough/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/shapeart.pngShapeArthttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/austen.pngAustenhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/thywhereplot.pngThyWherePlothttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/thywhere.pngthywherehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/wordillus.pngWordIllushttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ldaformula.pngLDAformulahttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2darklight.png2DarkLight2014-05-09T11:36:04+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/09/22/how-everyone-gets-to-claim-they-do-dh/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dontbesquare.jpgdontbesquare"Don't be a square ..."https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/quentin-tarantino.jpgquentin-tarantino"This profession is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers ..."https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/saydh.jpgsayDHh/t @frankridgway2014-05-09T11:35:56+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/12/02/visualizing-topic-models-with-force-directed-graphs/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/headline.pngheadlinehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cellalt49.pngcellalt49https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cellplot99.pngcellplot99https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cellplot49.pngcellplot49https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/main-tm.pngMain TMhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/screen-shot-2012-12-02-at-2-16-46-pm1.pngScreen shot 2012-12-02 at 2.16.46 PMhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/screen-shot-2012-12-02-at-2-16-46-pm.pngScreen shot 2012-12-02 at 2.16.46 PM2014-05-09T11:35:44+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/12/14/what-can-topic-models-of-pmla-teach-us-about-the-history-of-literary-scholarship/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/overview-ordered.pngoverview-orderedhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/topic59line.pngtopic59linehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/thumbnail.jpg100-topic model of PMLA.Goldstone's 100-topic model of <em>PMLA</em>, click through to enlarge.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sm150topics.jpgA topic model of 150 topics.A browsable network based on Underwood's model of <em>PMLA.</em> Click through, then mouse over or click on individual topics.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/79.jpgTopic 79 from Underwood's 150-topic model.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/109.jpgTopic 109 from Underwood's model of 150 topics.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/rage_css_imagemap.jpg150 topics from PMLA.A browsable image map of 150 topics from PMLA. After you click through you can mouseover (or click) individual topics for more information.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/network.pngnetworkA network model of 100 topics from PMLA. Click through and click to enlarge.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/overview.pngoverview2014-05-09T11:35:34+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/05/10/why-it-matters-that-we-dont-know-what-we-mean-by-big-data/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/800px-looking_up_at_empire_state_building.jpg800px-Looking_Up_at_Empire_State_Building2014-04-14T22:32:25+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2014/03/18/how-much-dh-can-we-fit-in-a-literature-department/2014-06-12T13:36:30+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/12/20/measurement-and-modeling/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/bammanlatentpersonas1.jpgBammanLatentPersonasIllustration from "Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters," Bamman et. al.2014-08-23T14:31:06+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/12/10/a-half-decent-ocr-normalizer-for-english-texts-after-1700/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/bestocrgraph.jpgOCR correctionThe percentage of tokens in a text that are recognized as words before (red) and after (black) correction by my script. Technically this is not "recall" but a count of (true and false) "positives."2015-06-30T14:07:23+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/09/22/genre-gender-and-point-of-view/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/povbygender3.pngPOVbygenderProportion of works of fiction by men and women in first person. Based on the same set of 774 volumes described above. (This figure counts strictly by the number of works rather than weighting works by the number of words they contain.)https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/firstpersonin774vols.pngFirstPersonin774volsMean probability that fiction is written in first person, 1700-1899. Based on a corpus of 774 volumes of fiction selected by multiple hands from multiple sources. Plotted in 20-year bins because n is smaller here.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/firstperson2.pngFirstPerson2Mean probability that fiction is written in first person, 1700-1899. Based on a corpus of 32,209 volumes of fiction extracted from HathiTrust Digital Library. Points are mean probabilities for five-year spans of time; a trend line with standard errors has been plotted with loess smoothing.2013-09-26T05:49:56+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/about/2013-08-24T14:16:11+00:00weekly0.6https://tedunderwood.com/2013/08/18/a-kind-of-skepticism-that-humanists-shouldnt-give-up/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/genresto1923annotated.jpgGenresTo1923AnnotatedResults I think are still basically reliable, although we need to talk more about that word "genre."2013-09-13T00:24:33+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/08/04/interesting-times-for-literary-theory/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/modernstudyofliterature2.jpgModernStudyOfLiteratureA 1915 book by Chicago's "Professor of Literary Theory."https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/0804784469.jpg08047844692016-01-25T11:29:41+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/06/11/on-not-trusting-people-who-promise-to-use-their-powers-for-good/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/800px-dr_jekyll_and_mr_hyde_poster_edit2.jpg800px-Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde_poster_edit2Poster from the 1880s, courtesy Wikimedia commons.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/occupychampaign.pngOccupyChampaignUsing numbers in public: Occupy Champaign.2022-06-25T22:53:09+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/05/08/a-new-approach-to-the-history-of-character/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/emotion-masks-760092.jpgEmotion-Masks-760092https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/simmsjosgalleryfaces.gifJoseph Simms, Physiognomy IllustratedJoseph Simms, Physiognomy Illustrated (1889)2013-06-06T12:26:36+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/04/12/the-long-history-of-humanistic-reaction-to-sociology/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/culturalcapital.jpgCulturalCapitalJohn Guillory, <i>Cultural Capital</i>, Chicago, 1993.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bowie.jpgbowieBowie, Heroes, 45 rpm, photo by Affendaddy. CC-BY-NC-SA.2013-04-27T20:43:26+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/04/01/distant-reading-and-representativeness/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/pullquote3.jpgpullquotehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/pullquote2.jpgpullquotehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/scott.jpgScott Weingart tweet.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/both.jpgThe same question posed to two entirely different collections.The same question posed to two different collections. 773 hand-selected first editions on the left; on the right, 47,549 volumes, including many translation and reprints.2013-04-04T12:23:48+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2013/01/20/on-the-novelty-of-humanistic-values/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/crisisofhum.pngThe crisis of the humanities.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/lithist.jpglithisthttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/humanities2.jpghumanitieshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/crisisofhum.jpgcrisisofhum2013-02-03T17:41:19+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/04/30/thinking-through-the-difference-between-topics/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/momentlonger.jpgMomentLongerA list of terms most strongly associated with the group "instantly, cried, felt, moment, longer" in a generically diverse corpus of 2,193 18c documents ranging from sermons to cookbooks. "Similarity" here is technically measured as the cosine of the angle between two vectors.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/instantfeelings1.jpgInstantFeelingsA fragment of a larger tree, produced by clustering the top 1650 terms in a collection of 2,193 18c documents. Click through for a larger image giving more context.2013-01-12T14:30:05+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/11/11/visualizing-topic-models/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/prettierpca.jpgPrettierPCAhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/prettierpost1850.jpgPrettierPost18502019-06-28T23:54:30+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/10/20/problems-of-scale/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/henry-fuseli-the-artist-in-despair-over-the-magnitude-of-antique-fragments.jpghenry-fuseli-the-artist-in-despair-over-the-magnitude-of-antique-fragmentsThe Artist in Despair Over the Magnitude of Antique Fragments, by Henry Fuseli.2012-12-09T02:43:06+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/08/25/how-not-to-do-things-with-words/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/perspectivephoto.jpgPerspectivephotoThe laws of perspective apply to history as well. We don't have an objective overview; we have a position in time that produces its own kind of distortion and foreshortening. Photo 2004 by June Ruivivar.2015-09-23T12:32:17+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/07/27/getting-everything-you-want-from-hathitrust/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/justshelves.jpgjustshelvesNYPL, photo courtesy Alex Proimoshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/book_shelves_and_computers.jpgIMG_7485NYPL, photo courtesy Alex Proimos2017-01-08T16:17:15+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/06/21/i-like-open-and-i-like-review-but-do-they-need-to-be-fused/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/federicamarchi.jpgFedericaMarchi"Open Doors," Federica Marchi 2007, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.2012-06-22T14:57:17+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/05/13/its-the-data-a-plan-of-action/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/luther-nailing-theses-560x538.jpgLuther-nailing-theses-560x5382012-06-01T19:48:10+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/05/06/ot-brief-politics-and-the-academy/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/wisconsin-protests.jpgwisconsin-protestsProtests outside the Wisconsin State Capitol, Feb 2011.2012-05-09T08:02:35+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/01/what-kinds-of-topics-does-topic-modeling-actually-produce/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/lovelife.pngLoveLifehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/eyesvoice.pngEyesVoicehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/motherchild.pngMotherChild2013-05-21T17:46:31+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/03/25/a-touching-detail-produced-by-lda/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/topic72.pngTopic72https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mindfeelingsannot.pngMindFeelingsAnnot2012-03-31T21:30:01+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/03/09/etymology-and-nineteenth-century-poetic-diction/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/litnonlit1150.pngLitNonlit1150https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/poeticdiction23.pngPoeticDiction2https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/poeficnondra.pngPoeFicNonDrahttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/unpoeticdiction.pngUnpoeticDictionhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/poeticdiction22.pngPoeticDiction2https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/poeticdiction21.pngPoeticDiction2https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/poeticdiction11.pngPoeticDiction1https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/poeticdiction2.pngPoeticDiction2https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/poeticdiction1.pngPoeticDiction1https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/poetryfictionnon.pngPoetryFictionNon2016-03-15T12:40:54+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/03/03/big-but-not-distant/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/adelaide_hills_overlooking_inland_ahead_towards_home1.jpgAdelaide_Hills_overlooking_inland_ahead_towards_homeI'm just saying.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/adelaide_hills_overlooking_inland_ahead_towards_home.jpgAdelaide_Hills_overlooking_inland_ahead_towards_homeI'm just saying.2012-03-04T22:09:40+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/open-data/2024-04-22T15:01:35+00:00weekly0.6https://tedunderwood.com/2011/10/16/lsa-is-a-marvellous-tool-but-humanists-may-no-use-it-the-way-computer-scientists-do/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sensibility.jpgsensibilityhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/matrix.pngMatrixA (very small) term-document matrix.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/compression.pngcompressionThe 18c. associations of "high" and "towering," as measured in a term-document matrix that has undergone SVD compression.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/without.pngwithoutThe 18c associations of "high" and "towering," in an uncompressed term-document matrix.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/delicacy.pngdelicacyComparing 18c associations for "delicacy" generated by two different algorithms.2012-02-02T01:31:08+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/01/12/identifying-topics-with-a-specific-kind-of-historical-timeliness/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dictionwordcloud.jpgDictionWordCloudDark adjectives are overrepresented in 18c works containing "diction," light adjectives are underrepresented.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/diction.jpgdictiondiction, elegance, in the English corpus, 1700-1900, plus the capitalized 18c versionshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/elegantwordcloud.jpgElegantWordCloudDark adjectives are overrepresented in works that contain "elegance," light ones underrepresented.2012-02-02T01:30:31+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/04/07/the-key-to-all-mythologies/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/annotatedtrunk1.jpgAnnotatedTrunk2012-02-02T01:29:50+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/09/16/topics-are-also-trends/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/enemyattacked2.jpgEnemyAttackedhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/silencelistened1.jpgSilenceListenedhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/enemy2.jpgEnemyThe top 15 terms in topic #89, "Enemy/Attacked," and their cosine similarity to the centroid.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/enemyattacked1.jpgEnemyAttackedhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/silence2.jpgSilence2The top 15 words in topic #91, "Silence/Listened," and their cosine similarity to the centroid.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/armyenemymed.jpgArmyEnemyMedhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/enemy1.jpgEnemyThe top 15 terms in Topic #89, "Enemy/Attacked," and their cosine similarity to the centroid.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/enemyattacked.jpgEnemyAttackedhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/silencelistened.jpgSilenceListenedhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/enemy.jpgEnemyThe topic 15 words in topic #89, "Enemy/Attacked," and their cosine similarity to the centroid.2012-02-02T01:29:24+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/01/03/a-brief-outburst-about-numbers/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/romannumerals.jpgRomanNumeralshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/armyenemymed.jpgArmyEnemyMedThe diachronic behavior a topic can actually exhibit.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/beta_distribution_pdf.pngBeta_distribution_pdfpossible shapes of the Beta distribution, from Wikpedia2013-03-09T10:07:07+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/01/24/discovery-and-hypothesis-testing/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/satan_sin_death.jpgSatan_Sin_DeathWiliam Blake, "Satan, Sin, and Death"2012-01-27T16:34:21+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/01/10/fish-wins-round-two/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/neuromancer_old_cover-225x300.jpgneuromancer_old_cover-225x300The cover of Neuromancer that I remember. I may not have copyright to this image, but file-sharing is part of my religion.2012-01-24T04:55:16+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2012/01/08/mla-talk-just-the-thesis/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/illus-copy.jpgillus copya slide from the talk, where a simple topic-modeling algorithm has been used to produce a dendrogram that offers a clue about the temporal framing of narration2012-01-15T23:39:21+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/12/15/what-no-one-tells-you-about-the-digital-humanities/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/behinderung2lc0.jpgbehinderung2lc0Opportunities are not always well signposted.2012-01-02T23:53:48+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/09/18/its-okay-for-us-not-to-solve-the-crisis-of-the-humanities/2011-12-30T15:25:12+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/11/18/exploring-the-relationship-between-topics-and-trends/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bosomrepose.pngBosomReposehttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/indiaeuropean.pngIndiaEuropeanhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/colorplot2.jpgColorplot22019-07-18T13:26:07+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/10/22/on-transitive-and-intransitive-uses-of-the-verb-to-theorize/2011-10-24T15:39:00+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/28/no-google-hasnt-proven-structuralism-but-they-may-have-made-it-useful/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/thickthin1.jpgThickThinthin, thick, in English Fiction, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/wetdry1.jpgWetDrywet, dry, in English Fiction, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cleandirty.jpgCleanDirtyclean, dirty, in English Fiction, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/thickthin.jpgThickThinthick, thin, in English Fiction, 1800-20002011-10-20T11:52:36+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/09/28/a-course-description/2011-10-01T15:17:39+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/09/19/words-that-appear-in-the-same-18c-volumes-also-track-each-other-over-time-through-the-19c-p-01/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/gratifycurves540.jpgGratifyCurves540Six words that tend to occur in the same 18c volumes as 'gratify' (in TCP-ECCO), plotted over time in a different collection (a corrected version of Google ngrams).https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/gratifycurves455.jpgGratifyCurves455The seven words most closely associated with 'gratify' in 18c volumes (produced by TCP-ECCO), plotted as time series in a corrected version of Google ngrams.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/gratifycurves.jpgGratifyCurvesThe top seven words in one randomly-generated cluster.2011-09-20T12:57:29+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/08/15/how-to-make-text-mining-serve-literary-history-and-not-the-other-way-around/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/brittimeseries.pngBritTimeSerieshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/fc9closeup2.pngFC9closeuphttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/timeseries.pngTimeSerieshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/fc9closeup1.pngFC9closeuphttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/fc9closeup.pngFC9closeuphttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/forcecluster9.pngForceCluster9https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/annote.pngAnnotePart of a topic tree based on a generically diverse collection of 2200 18c texts.2011-08-30T02:30:14+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/06/30/digital-humanities-and-the-spy-business/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/lego-spy-e1309435089164.jpglego-spyFlickr / dunechaser (Creative Commons)2015-03-05T17:04:03+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/02/06/why-search-was-the-killer-app-in-text-mining-and-what-we-might-learn-from-it/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/yale_card_catalog.jpgYale_card_catalogCard catalogs at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale. Image courtesy Wikimedia commons.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dictionexcite.jpgDictionExcitediction, excite, Diction, Excite, in English corpus, 1700-1900https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/vanitydictionexcite.jpgVanityDictionExcitevanity, diction, excite, in English, 1700-19002023-06-12T03:21:34+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/05/06/the-history-of-an-association-part-two/2011-05-07T19:01:17+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/05/04/the-history-of-an-associative-cluster/2011-05-06T18:05:28+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/04/04/revealing-the-relationships-between-topics-in-a-corpus/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/bettersentiment.jpgBetterSentimentpart of a topic tree based on 2,200 18c workshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/sentimentw.jpgSentimentWpart of a topic tree based on 2,200 18c workshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/travelw.jpgTravelWpart of a topic tree based on 2,200 18c workshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/poeticw.jpgPoeticWpart of a topic tree based on 2,200 18c workshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/highlightsentiment.jpgHighlightSentimentpart of a topic tree based on 2,200 18c workshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/sentiment.jpgSentimentpart of a hierarchical topic tree based on 2200 18c textshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/travel.jpgTravelpart of a hierarchical topic tree based on 2200 18c textshttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/poetic.jpgPoeticpart of a hierarchical topic tree produced with 2,200 18c works2011-04-30T21:37:19+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/02/17/using-clustering-to-explore-the-relationships-between-trending-topics/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/first-dendrogramat610px.jpgFirst DendrogramAt610pxhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1775to1825labeled.jpg1775to1825labeledA dendrogram of trending topics in the period 1775-1825.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dictionversification.jpgDictionVersification2015-04-07T13:19:43+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/22/more-reflections-on-the-apparent-structuralism-in-the-google-dataset/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/seasons1.jpgSeasons1winter, summer, spring, autumn, in English fiction, 1820-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/delicaterough.jpgDelicateRoughdelicate, rough, in English fiction, from 1800 to 2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/brightdark.jpgBrightDarkbright, dark, in English corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/englishfictioncolors2.jpgEnglishFictionColorsblue, red, green, yellow, in English fiction, 1800-20002011-02-17T11:21:08+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/02/10/a-bit-more-on-the-tension-between-heuristic-and-evidentiary-methods/2018-08-24T11:47:50+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/01/31/seriously-geeking-out/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/kungfu.jpgkungfuI know kung fu.2011-01-31T15:14:51+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/30/several-varieties-of-noise-and-the-theme-to-love-story/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/romantic01.jpgromantic01English Fiction got very romantic indeed in 1972.https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/romantic51.jpgromantic51romantic, in English Fiction, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hirnhim.jpgHirnHimhirn, him, in the English corpus, 1700-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hirn.jpgHirnhirn, in the English corpus, 1700-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/xec1.jpgxecxec, in the English corpus, 1700-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/xec.jpgxecxec, in the English corpus, 1700-20002011-01-21T15:29:39+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2011/01/14/the-google-dataset-as-an-episode-in-the-history-of-science/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/airpump.jpgairpumpRobert Boyle's air pump.2011-02-04T00:16:41+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/21/the-rise-of-a-sensory-style/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/wetdry620.jpgWetDry620wet, dry, in the English fiction corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/coolwarm620.jpgCoolWarm620cool, warm, in the English fiction corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hotcold620.jpgHotCold620cold, hot, in the English fiction corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/englishfictioncolors620.jpgEnglishFictionColors620blue, red, green, yellow, in the English fiction corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hotcold_1.jpgHotCold_1cold, hot, in English fiction, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/englishfictioncolors1.jpgEnglishFictionColorsblue, red, green, yellow, in English fiction, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/wetdry.jpgWetDrywet, dry, in English fiction, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/coolwarm1.jpgCoolWarmcool, warm, in English Fiction, from 1800 to 2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/coolwarm.jpgCoolWarmhttps://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hotcold.jpgHotColdcold, hot, in English fiction, 1800-20002011-01-07T20:21:54+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/30/how-to-make-the-google-dataset-work-for-humanists/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/fightfor620.jpgFightFor620fight for existence, fight for life, fight for survival, fight to the death, in English, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/satanic630.jpgSatanic630Satanic, Satanic influence, Satanic verses, in English corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/satanic1.jpgSatanicSatanic, Satanic influence, Satanic Verses, in English corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/satanic.jpgSatanicSatanic, Satanic influence, Satanic verses, in English 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/fightfor.jpgFightForfight for existence, fight for survival, fight for life, fight to the death, in the English corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/youngpeople.jpgYoungPeopleyoung woman,young man,young person,young people, in the English corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/gentles1.jpggentlesladies, gentlemen, in the English corpus, 1700-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/thebigsleepcover.jpgTheBigSleepCover2011-01-07T15:33:28+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/19/what-we-might-learn-from-word-frequency/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tumblr_ldn5uu3pk21qfb0nt.pngtumblr_ldn5uu3pK21qfb0ntReferences to dates, 1900-2000, image by Zach Seward, 12/18/10.2011-01-07T12:55:06+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/20/on-the-imperfection-of-the-google-dataset-and-imperfection-in-general/2011-01-07T12:54:42+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/21/colors/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/englishfictioncolors.jpgEnglishFictionColorsblue, red, green, yellow, in English Fiction, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/minorcolors.jpgMinorColorslavender, pink, indigo, brown, gray, purple, in English corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/britishcolours.jpgBritishColoursblue, red, green, yellow, in the British corpus, 1800-2000https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/englishcolors.jpgEnglishcolorsblue, red, green, yellow, in the English corpus, 1800-20002011-01-07T12:54:17+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/21/131/https://tedunderwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/efficiencypleasure.jpgEfficiencyPleasureefficiency, pleasure, in English corpus, 1820-20002010-12-21T16:20:14+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.com/2010/12/19/hello-world/2010-12-20T13:32:58+00:00monthlyhttps://tedunderwood.comdaily1.02026-02-10T05:37:28+00:00