Preliminary Class Business

• Enrollment
• Getting started on your portfolios. (Preview of portfolios due April 30th)
• "Thought" Essay # 1. (Due April 30th)
• Readings for next class.
•  Practicum 4: Text Analysis 2  Instructions for this practicum | Folder of exercises on Student Work page

1. Text Analysis

Other resources that might be used in discussion:

• Willard McCarty, Humanities Computing (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005)
• NASA models
• Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

2. Your Practicums

• Student work folder

Some explanatory resources:

• Cosine similarity
• Practical guide to correspondence analysis (including Principal Component Analysis)