Benjamin MacDonald Schmidt Assistant Professor of History, Northeastern University Core Faculty, NuLab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
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A complicated example
{
"database": "catalogworm",
"plotType": "map",
"projection": "mercator",
"method": "return_json",
"search_limits": {
"*htsource":[
"University of Michigan",
"University of California"
],
"date_year": {
"$gte": 1800,
"$lte": 1922
}
},
"aesthetic": {
"color": "TextPercent",
"size": "TotalTexts",
"point": "publication_place_geo",
"time": "date_year",
"label": "publication_place_toponymName"
},
"scaletype":"linear"
}
Barchart of overall counts
{
"database": "movies",
"plotType": "barchart",
"method": "return_json",
"search_limits": {},
"aesthetic": {
"x": "TotalTexts",
"y": "medium"
}
}
CBS internal program analysis
Ernst Dichter papers, Hagley Museum & Archive
A subtitle chunking algorithm:
> a. 6ths
> b. 12ths
> c. 24ths
> d. etc...
Number of chunks, by minute.
{
"database": "screenworm",
"plotType": "linechart",
"method": "return_json",
"search_limits": {
"minute": {
"$lte": 240
}
},
"aesthetic": {
"y": "TotalTexts",
"x": "minute",
"color": "medium"
}
}
{ "database": "screenworm",
"plotType": "linechart",
"search_limits": {
"movieYear":{"$gte":1830,"$lte":2022},
"6th":[1,2,3,4,5,6],
"*TV_show":["Seinfeld"],
"*topic_label":["call phone Hello number called message calling"]
},"words_collation":"Case_Sensitive",
"aesthetic": {
"x": "6th",
"y" : "WordsPerMillion"
}}