Distant Reader

Size & Scope

First, the simple things. Your study carrel was created through the submission of a [SINGLE URL|FILE OF URLS|FILE FROM YOUR COMPUTER|ZIP FILE]. This ultimately resulted in a collection of 99 item(s). The original versions of these items have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the following analysis has been done against these plain text files.

Your study carrel is 865,064 words long. [0] Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 20,596 words long. [1] 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 illustrate the overall size of your study carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, your documents have an average readability score of 69. [2] 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 illustrate the overall readability of your study carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of your carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include: [3]

li, http, data, href, text, library, td, com, use, will, strong, content, infomotions, edu, word, one, nd, words, search, libraries, nbsp, org, file, files, number, information, things, rdf, open, used, xml, web, well, source, span, process, digital, sandbox, books, people, time, like, linked, list, services, dh, amp, crc, collection, marc

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are planet-infomotions-com-3359, Planet Eric Lease Morgan, and Infomotions Mini-Musings – Artist- and Librarian-At-Large.

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

href http, li li, td td, edu sandbox, linked data, com blog, src http, open source, text mining, img src, ul li, li strong, li ul, digital humanities, content uploads, blog wp, td tr, source software, edu emorgan, notre dame, code lib, plain text, span nbsp, target blank, com alex, sandbox eebo, align center, alex concordance, wordsearch phrase, zzzz word, segsize usepre, word zzzz, cmd wordsearch, phrase zzzz, usepre word, zzzz bookcode, full text, align right, water collection, sandbox htrc, great books, search results, travel log, tr tr, tr td, emorgan files, sandbox readings, distant reader, great ideas, open access

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Michael Hart in Roanoke (Indiana) - YouTube None, and Laurence Anthony''s AntConc.

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 your study carrel include:

web, library, perl, great, distant, xml, word, viaf, text, step, research, reader, rdf, marc, html, google, github, catalogue, university, pdf, libraries, dpla, digital, data, dame, conference, code4lib, center, alex, water, url, uri, uncategorized, tfidf, tei, state, sru, sparql, source, solr, services, semantic, science, sandbox, reading, project, open, oai, november, notre

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If your study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be li, and is most about that word.

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

If your 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:

8220, 8221, data - Infomotions Mini-Musings – Artist- and Librarian-At-Large
li, http, href - planet-infomotions-com-3359
source, library, tika - Infomotions'' Musings on Information and Librarianship
continue, 8230, reading - Index of /
data, library, digital - MALLET homepage

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?":

data, text, p, content, words, library, number, things, file, information, word, process, libraries, people, time, sandbox, files, use, list, source, collection, web, services, href="http://dh.crc.nd.edu, xml, search, book, set, books, reader, way, software, results, water, musings, example, database, blog, computer, work, documents, amp, records, document, analysis, items, texts, access, #, metadata

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:

is, are, be, was, have, do, were, used, has, use, linked, given, called, been, create, make, using, see, get, based, find, read, created, described, does, done, think, had, provide, written, need, know, go, made, published, describes, include, learn, being, intended, comes, reading, understand, take, creating, named, learned, want, making, found

Proper Nouns

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

/p, li, #, rdf, library, university, marc, href="http://infomotions.com, td, alex, p, data, perl, digital, notre, dame, tcp, libraries, great, src="http://infomotions.com, thoreau, amp, google, search.cgi?q, project, eric, browser, htrc, h2, zzzz&word, concordance/?cmd, >, nbsp;

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?"

i, it, my, you, they, we, their, your, them, he, our, its, me, his, she, us, itself, her, themselves, myself, one, him, yourself, ourselves, himself, #, >, ’s, let’s, year’s, http://example.org/city, safe.”, one’s, em, you.”, years’, we’ll, us”, there.”, ii, herself, apache2::const::ok, wordclouds, useful”, solve?”, mine, http://example.org/europe, http://dbpedia.org/resource/walt_disney, y’, yours

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

proper nouns

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?"

other, more, many, open, such, digital, new, first, few, good, available, same, full, different, strong, bibliographic, possible, second, next, able, great, simple, plain, most, -, much, traditional, local, long, wp, single, specific, particular, similar, interesting, whole, easy, complete, own, library, short, triple, useful, difficult, original, common, various, current, human, important

not, then, more, as, well, very, also, just, up, most, only, really, here, so, now, much, first, out, too, specifically, instead, even, about, never, together, finally, back, thus, consequently, rather, again, there, still, originally, almost, simply, probably, all, usually, often, easily, above, ago, sometimes, always, yet, on, maybe, necessarily, below

Next steps

Here is a prioritized list of next steps to thus get more out of your study carrel:

browse, sort, and search the content of the menu items named Ngrams, POS, Grammars, and Others found at the top of this page to acquire more detail about your carrel
read standard-output.txt, as it will both summarize and elaborate upon this narrative report
read MANIFEST.htm to both inventory your study carrel as well as learn how to answer more specific questions of it

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