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- This page is a companion to the guest lecture for WRIT2100.
- Please do bring a laptop! If you have one, bring your own. If you do not have one, please feel free to check one out at the Olin circulation desk. Having a laptop will allow you to participate in the exercises and get the most out of class.
- 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.
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- nGram tool - delete the words and supply your own.
- Words for destroying populations
- Spanish words in English publications
- El Norte in English and Spanish
- Punk Rock Bands
- 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)
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