{"id":120,"date":"2017-10-11T17:58:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/?p=120"},"modified":"2017-10-11T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:58:27","slug":"for-thursday-1012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/2017\/10\/11\/for-thursday-1012\/","title":{"rendered":"For Thursday (10\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Thursday, first head over to gutenberg.org<\/a> and find a text you’re interested in analyzing.\u00a0 The text should be fairly long, i.e. try a novel or a collection of short stories, etc.\u00a0 Pro tip: download the text as a .txt file.<\/p>\n

Next, go to Voyant Tools<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a free, open source suite of text analysis tools.\u00a0 Before you start using the various tools, look at the tutorial on “Getting Started<\/a>.” Also, take a look at the “Tools Index<\/a>“; this will give you a sense of the kinds of things you can do to your selected text.\u00a0 (You can also watch short video tutorials of particular tools<\/a> and how to employ them.)\u00a0 I highly recommend that you check out Alexis Priestley’s essay on using Voyant<\/a> – – it’s a great, concrete example of how to do computational text analysis and how to think about its results.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve familiarized yourself a bit with Voyant, upload your selected text and let the games begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Thursday, first head over to gutenberg.org and find a text you’re interested in analyzing.\u00a0 The text should be fairly long, i.e. try a novel or a collection of short stories, etc.\u00a0 Pro tip: download the text as a .txt file. Next, go to Voyant Tools.\u00a0 This is a free, open source suite of text … Continue reading For Thursday (10\/12)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english495\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}