(Dr Ian Milligan) OCR, Textual Analysis, Topic Modeling; reading from afar
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Jean-Baptiste Michel et al, “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books,” Science, Vol. 331, No. 6014: 176-182. https://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/176 (through UWO)
Robert K. Nelson, “Mining the Dispatch,” a digital project at http://dsl.richmond.edu/dispatch/.
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‘What is Topic Modeling and For Whom is This Useful’ section of the Programming Historian 2 lesson http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/topic-modeling-and-mallet
Ian Milligan, “Illusionary Order: Cautionary Notes for Online Newspapers”
Joel Sherlock, What OCR can do for You!
Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making us Stupid?”
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- Serendipomatic
- Google Books Ngram Viewer
- Bursty words
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