In preparation for the publication of my book (Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History, UIUC Press, 2013), I’ve begun posting some graphs and other data to my (new) website. To get the ball rolling, I have created an interactive “theme viewer” where visitors will find a drop down menu of the 500 themes I harvested from a corpus of 3,346 19-century British, Irish and American novels using “topic modeling” and a series of pre-processing routines that I detail in the book. Each theme is accompanied by a word cloud showing the relative importance of each term to the topic, and each cloud is followed by four graphs showing the distribution of the topic/theme over time and across author genders and author nationalities. Here is a sample of a theme I have labeled “FACTORY AND WORKHOUSE LABOR.” You can click on the thumbnails below for larger images, but the real fun is over at the theme viewer.
Macroanalysis
28 Monday May 2012
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