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Preparation
- This page is a companion to the guest lecture
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- for WRIT2100.
- Please do bring a laptop! If you have one, bring your own. If you do not have one, please feel free to
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- check one out at the Olin circulation desk. Having a laptop will allow you to participate in the exercises and get the most out
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- of this exploration.
- Please bring samples of text you want to explore. These can be in several formats: plain text, Microsoft Word Document, PDF and URLs to online sources. We will be loading them into various tools; hopefully you will see interesting results. I will encourage sharing.
- No special software will be needed. All exercises will be done through a Web browser, without any special plugins.
Agenda
Presentation
There will be a
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Exercises
All exercises will be demonstrated, so no prior knowledge of the tools are required. The room is equipped with a jack to allow easy sharing of your desktop on the screen, so if you discover something that you would like to share and discuss, we can easily do so, and I will encourage that.
Voyant
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nGrams
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Voyant privacy policy. Sample texts and URLs for analysis are listed below for experimentation, in case you run low on ideas.
- Sample texts for upload are below, courtesy of Project Gutenberg. Download plain text version to your local machine for upload into the Voyant interface
. For the Term of his Natural Life - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3424
- Churchill, James Morss, 1796?-1863. A Treatise on Acupuncturation - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50985
- Sample PDFs
- Supreme Court of the United States. Website with opinions, dissents, etc.
- Jones, Adam. 2006. Except of Chapter 1 from Genocide: a comprehensive introduction. London: Routledge.
- Sample URLS: copy and paste into the Voyant upload browser window to get started.
Economics of Crisis - http://www.economicsofcrisis.com/indications.html
Instructions to major John Sullivan. Washington, George, 1732-1799. The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
- Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code - http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92preface.html
- Sample Visualization
Google nGram Viewer
We will also explore Google's nGram Viewer. Google There will be exercise time using Google's
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- nGram tool - delete the words and supply your own.
- Guerrilla Theater Groups
- Contrast "acupuncture" as found in publications of USA and Great Britain
- Contrast "convict ship" as found in publications of USA and Great Britain
- When are we "patients" and when are we "healthcare consumers"?
- Paris...of the Nile/along the Nile/of Egypt/etc.
- Words for destroying populations
- Spanish words in English publications
- Terms related to racial integration
- "Ebola" 1975-2008 in various languages (compare with data from WHO on Ebola outbreaks and a map of official languages of African countries)
Immersion
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