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
Readings for last class:
- Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 1-33, 91-92
- Ryan Heuser and and Long Le-Khac, "A Quantitative Literary History of 2,958 Nineteenth-Century British Novels: The Semantic Cohort Method" [PDF] (Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet #4) (2012)
Readings for this class:
- Ted Underwood, "Where to Start with Text Mining?" (2012)
- Franco Moretti, "'Operationalizing': Or, The Function of Measurement in Modern Literary Theory" [PDF] (Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet #6, 2013)
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
Some explanatory resources:
- Cosine similarity
- Practical guide to correspondence analysis (including Principal Component Analysis)