Northeastern University/Rice University Cultural Observatory
Erez Lieberman Aiden
Neva Cherniavsky, Martin Camacho, Matt Nicklay, Billy Janitsch, JB Michel.
Bill Lane Center for the American West: http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers
Textual Metadata: Correspondence Networks
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Textual Metadata: Trial Lengths
Data Mining with Criminal Intent/The Old Bailey Online
ICOADS Deck 701, US Maury Collection (1789-c.1865) ICOADS
ICOADS Deck 735, Russian Research Vessel (R/V) Digitization
books.google.com/ngrams
books.google.com/ngrams
Bookworm Open Library
Some public Bookworm instances:
Vogueworm (Yale University): full run of Vogue Magazine
http://bookworm.library.yale.edu/collections/vogue/
Medical Heritage Library (30,000 medical books)
http://sandbox.htrc.illinois.edu/bookworm/
Mentions of US Presidents in Ngrams and the Chronicling America Bookworm
The 1896 Eelection: Candidates by news coverage
Coverage of presidential candidates in the 1896 election by candidate last name
Coverage of all presidential elections, 1860-1920
Statistics returnable from comparing text and token counts across two collections:
How Humanists use topic models badly:
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"method": "return_json",
"search_limits": {},
"aesthetic": {
"point": "placeOfPublication_geo",
"size": "TextCount"
}}
{"database": "ChronAm",
"plotType": "map",
"method": "return_json",
"search_limits": {},
"aesthetic": {
"point": "placeOfPublication_geo",
"size": "TextCount",
"time": "publish_year"}}
Newspaper flu coverage, 1917-1919
{"database": "ChronAm",
"plotType": "map",
"method": "return_json",
"search_limits": {"word":["flu","influenza"],
"publish_year":{"$lte":1920,"$gte":1917}},
"smoothingSpan":25,
"aesthetic": {
"time":"publish_day",
"point": "placeOfPublication_geo",
"size": "TextPercent"}}
{"database": "viral",
"plotType": "map",
"method": "return_json",
"search_limits": {
"chunk": [6]
},
"aesthetic": {
"point": "placeOfPublication_geo",
"size": "WordCount",
"time": "date_year"}}
Viral Texts: Ryan Cordell and David Smith, Northeastern University
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"plotType": "map",
"method": "return_json",
"search_limits": {
"topic": {
"$gte": 10
}
},
"aesthetic": {
"point": "placeOfPublication_geo",
"size": "WordCount",
"time": "topic",
"label": "topic_label"}}