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Getting Intimate with Your Data - Working Our Way out of the Lab
This document discusses various text analysis and data visualization tools and techniques. It provides examples of network and temporal analyses that have been performed on textual data from the Harvard Business Review to reveal connections between business and society over time. Several challenges of working with different types of complex data like text, images, time and networks are also outlined. The document promotes thinking longer term about analyzing and presenting interconnected data for future scholarship.
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- 1. Analysing deux Will thescholarship ever leave the lab? Getting Intimate with Your Data ! ! 18 February 2014
- 2. Any Success withTA or DV? Did anyone get a chance to poke around with Voyant, TAPoR or ManyEyes?
- 3. An Interesting TACase Study ‣ ‣ Objective: Goal was to reveal the connection between business and society in the historical record of the HBR Clement Levallois and Valerie Alloix ! ‣ https://www.kaggle.com/c/harvard-business-reviewvision-statement-prospect/prospector#100
- 4. A Sample Text/NetworkAnalysis ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ Merging the singular and plural forms of terms ("lemmatization"); Removal of the most common terms from the English language (based on a list of 5000 frequent terms - stop list); Detection of terms composed of multiple words ("n-gram detection"); Identification of the 10 most frequent terms for each year; Publishing frequency equalised as years preceding 2000 were grouped in 5 year periods; The next step was to manually inspect these 10 most frequent terms for each year or group of 5 years. Result: https://github.com/seinecle) Clement's Levallois Cowo software (
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- 7. How was: ! "Dennis thePaywall Menace Stalks the Archives"
- 8. Dennis the PaywallMenace Stalks the Archives "I suppose I would wish D. C. Thomson well in moving on from Dennis the Menace to history, if it wasn’t for the fact that it involves the theft of public cultural property." - Andrew Prescott ! Access versus Preservation Access versus Process Privileging certain collection because they are available
- 9. "It seems asif archivists have been gripped by a mania to digitise as quickly as possibly, regardless of the implications for future scholarship of how this is done." ! "Scottish students in Glasgow now study Welsh wills (freely available) rather than Scottish wills (locked behind a brightsolid paywell) – a lesson for the Scottish government to ponder there, surely." ! Andrew Prescott
- 10. "Digitization makes themost traditional forms of humanistic scholarship more necessary, not less. But the differences mean that we need to reinvent, not reaffirm, the way we engage with the humanities."
- 11. "Process raw datareceived through our senses into concepts, patterns and implications. Everything coming in through our senses is information waiting to be processed and understood." ! Wm Jones - Keeping Found Things Found
- 12. UnBuilding Grand CentralStation
- 13. Data Consisting ofWhat? ‣ Basic types of content that we are used to deal with: ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ Text Numbers Images Video Other, more “complex” stuff: ‣ ‣ ‣ Temporal - Time - Events Spatial - Space Coordinates - Place Relations, connections, links - genealogy - Networks
- 14. Time ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ ‣ Timeflow: Journalists TimeFlow was createdby: Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg (Flowing Media, Inc.) and Sarah Cohen (Duke University). The initial development was sponsored by Duke University's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.
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- 20. for Next Lecure(25 February): Presenting I Please take a look at: ! The Visual Complexity Website http://visualcomplexity.com
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