Posted in digital history, tagged digital history, tapor, text analysis, text comparison on 2 July 2008 | No Comments »
I posted previously about being inspired by Digital Scholarship in the Humanities to mess about with word clouds. The same post also gave me the idea to try some text comparison tools.
TAPoR’s Comparator tool allows you to type in the URLs for two different pieces of text. It then compares the two, producing a word [...]
Posted in civil war, digital history, england, historiography, seventeenth century, tagged digital history, dnb, henry walker, word cloud, word clouds, wordle on 23 June 2008 | 4 Comments »
A very useful post the other day from Lisa Spiro at Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, covering two things:
Using word clouds
Text comparison tools
I’ve been messing around with both over the last couple of days. Below are some thoughts on uses of word clouds.
Word clouds are a useful visual representation of the frequency with which a [...]
Posted in digital history, tagged blog carnival, carnivalesque on 16 June 2008 | No Comments »
The fortieth edition of Carnivalesque is up at jliedl.ca. This month it’s an early modern edition, with a long and wonderful selection of links.
Posted in digital history, tagged history, blogging on 18 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
This blog recently passed a milestone of getting its 10,000th hit. I’m still amazed anyone reads it, but to regulars, and also to those just dropping in, thank you for stopping by.
It has been an interesting experience starting blogging. The exact thing that prompted me to start was talking to a friend who makes a [...]
Posted in digital history, tagged digital history, programming historian on 5 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bill Turkel and Alan MacEachern’s new book - The Programming Historian, in the form of a wiki - is now officially up. Bill was kind enough to let me be involved in peer reviewing it, and while I’m a programming novice I’ve found it very easy to pick up. Thoroughly recommended, do check it out. [...]
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