classification-DL-gutenberg

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-28 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader gutenberg process, and the input was the result of a query applied to a local mirror of Project Gutenberg -- classification:"DL". Then, for future reference, the results were saved to a Zip file complete with rudimentary bibliographics. The name of the file is input-file.zip. The Zip file was then unpacked and the contents saved to a cache as well as a directory of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 27 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,814,107 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 75,587 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 76. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

king, one, great, made, time, two, queen, men, will, norway, now, many, came, much, little, man, day, also, denmark, people, long, first, us, country, good, old, well, may, years, way, danish, england, whitelocke, sweden, son, like, might, took, every, three, went, must, see, olaf, found, place, even, come, life, though

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Norway, The Story of Norway, and The Danish History, Books I-IX.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

crown vo, king olaf, prison governor, one day, united states, king magnus, foreign affairs, crown prince, years old, george iii, earl haakon, every one, danish king, three years, king haakon, queen matilda, next day, christian vii, long time, two years, king christian, took place, let us, old man, next morning, one another, juliana maria, new york, madame de, swedish king, cabinet council, one hundred, first time, two hundred, one side, young man, prime minister, short time, years later, consular service, five years, proclaimed king, every day, king erik, saint olaf, came back, ten years, gilt top, great deal, king sigurd

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Norway Canute the Great, 995 (circa)-1035, and the Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age, and The Story of Norway.

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

denmark, king, danish, norway, sweden, england, copenhagen, english, danes, swedish, norwegian, christian, queen, olaf, man, illustration, stockholm, north, little, day, chapter, time, prince, majesty, lord, harold, haakon, great, god, erik, earl, count, charles, valdemar, sverre, sigurd, scandinavian, magnus, house, harald, hakon, frederick, france, europe, eric, christiania, bergen, way, water, viken

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be king, and Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

1. king - The Story of Norway
2. said - The Land of the Long Night
3. whitelocke - A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

1. king, norway, great - The Story of Norway
2. queen, king, said - A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland
3. snow, little, time - Through Arctic Lapland
4. whitelocke, great, queen - A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.
5. king, man, men - The Danish History, Books I-IX

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

king, time, men, man, day, people, country, years, way, son, place, life, death, part, war, side, father, year, ships, days, power, land, house, night, name, sea, nothing, battle, hand, order, town, one, ship, brother, water, court, end, woman, head, peace, things, others, work, mother, army, law, city, wife, hands, daughter

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

was, had, is, were, be, have, are, been, said, made, did, has, came, do, being, took, went, found, see, come, make, take, called, gave, go, sent, brought, give, saw, left, told, having, put, given, know, taken, became, thought, seemed, done, asked, received, set, seen, let, passed, heard, knew, began, get

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

_, king, queen, norway, denmark, whitelocke, england, sweden, olaf, ., copenhagen, struensee, earl, prince, god, 8vo, christian, haakon, canute, erik, danes, crown, majesty, harold, english, i., lord, germany, thou, magnus, sigurd, russia, princess, matilda, frederick, harald, mr., ii, count, minister, north, charles, c., de, valdemar, union, iceland, swedes, st., norwegian

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

he, his, it, i, they, him, her, their, we, she, them, my, you, me, our, its, us, himself, your, themselves, herself, itself, thy, myself, one, thee, ourselves, yourself, mine, ours, yours, theirs, thyself, hers, oneself, ye, ''s, je, thou, pelf, pappenheim, delf, yourselves, woden:--, wigingamere, whereof, translated:--, these:--, skee, shortly:--

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

great, other, many, little, good, old, own, more, same, danish, first, such, long, much, new, few, last, large, small, swedish, norwegian, young, royal, several, whole, german, high, full, english, most, beautiful, best, next, present, ready, strong, certain, fine, public, short, free, open, foreign, possible, better, only, able, poor, true, different

not, so, then, up, very, now, only, also, out, more, as, most, well, here, there, even, down, again, never, too, soon, much, away, thus, still, once, far, back, however, off, always, therefore, on, long, about, first, often, in, just, yet, almost, together, ever, all, over, rather, probably, before, quite, perhaps

Next steps

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