text analysis – dh+lib https://dhandlib.org where the digital humanities and librarianship meet Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:51:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 180836968 RESOURCE: Textal Text Analysis App https://dhandlib.org/textal-text-analysis-app/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=textal-text-analysis-app https://dhandlib.org/textal-text-analysis-app/#comments Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:51:22 +0000 https://dhandlib.org/?p=5374 read more]]>

The University College London (UCL) Centre for Digital Humanities, in collaboration with the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has released Textal. Textal is a free iOS app “that allows users to analyze documents, web pages and tweet streams, exploring the relationships between words in the text via an intuitive word cloud interface. The app generates visualizations and statics that can be shared without effort, which makes it a fun and useful tool for both research and play, bridging the gap between text analysis and mobile computing. We also see it as a public engagement activity for Digital Humanities.”

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]]> https://dhandlib.org/textal-text-analysis-app/feed/ 1 5374 DIGITAL PROJECT: Lincoln Logarithms: Finding Meaning in Sermons https://dhandlib.org/digital-project-lincoln-logarithms-finding-meaning-in-sermons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=digital-project-lincoln-logarithms-finding-meaning-in-sermons https://dhandlib.org/digital-project-lincoln-logarithms-finding-meaning-in-sermons/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:24:09 +0000 https://dhandlib.org/?p=1086 read more]]>

Lincoln Logarithms, a new project from the Digital Scholarship Commons at Emory University, uses four text analysis tools, MALLET, Voyant, Paper Machines, and Viewshare, to examine 57 full text sermons given on the occasion of Lincoln’s assassination. Interesting enough in its own right, the project also explicitly addresses some the major obstacles in DH projects:

  • Can digital tools always make our research more innovative–or sometimes, do they just get in the way?
  • Would the digital programs offer new insights and save us time? Or would they clutter up an otherwise straighforward textual analysis?
  • Digital tools can help us hone in on what questions to ask. They are a way to help us arrive at questions and results, but they aren’t results.

This post was produced through a cooperation between Heather Martin, Chris Chelberg (Editors-at-Large for the week), Zach Coble (Editor for the week), and Roxanne Shirazi and Sarah Potvin (site editors).

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