subject-militaryEducation-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 2021-06-06 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 -- facet_subject:"Military education". 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 10 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 476,093 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 59,511 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 93. 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:

dick, one, jack, boys, came, get, know, well, will, see, now, rover, go, time, two, went, good, back, tom, think, going, answered, got, like, come, hall, cadets, want, much, us, man, fred, captain, just, cried, away, right, asked, made, put, take, must, way, andy, say, oh, make, something, let, yes

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Brandon of the Engineers, Dick Hamilton''s Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire''s Son, and The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall.

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

rover boys, putnam hall, captain putnam, colby hall, let us, lew flapp, slugger brown, dan baxter, nappy martell, dick rover, captain dale, answered jack, new york, don sebastian, santa brigida, asked dick, colonel colby, come back, george strong, answered dick, tom rover, josiah crabtree, cried jack, haven point, old man, tad sobber, get back, one side, good deal, clearwater hall, arnold baxter, hixley high, young major, cried andy, never mind, two men, cried dick, peleg snuggers, youngest rover, gabe werner, go back, military academy, one thing, cried tom, answered tom, replied dick, sam rover, uncle ezra, little later, major webster

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall The Rover Boys at Colby Hall; or, The Struggles of the Young Cadets, and The Putnam Hall Cadets; or, Good Times in School and Out.

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:

dick, captain, rover, jack, hall, tom, putnam, spouter, sam, randy, mr., gif, fred, dale, colby, brown, baxter, werner, webster, toots, tad, stuyvesant, stiver, spanish, spaniard, sobber, slugger, sheldon, sebastian, santa, rockley, randolph, powell, percival, pepper, pender, pell, payne, paxton, paul, nappy, mumps, merritt, merrick, martell, major, lew, larry, lacy, kenwardine

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 dick, and The Hilltop Boys: A Story of School Life 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. dick - Brandon of the Engineers
2. jack - The Putnam Hall Cadets; or, Good Times in School and Out
3. overturned - In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.

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. dick, said, jack - The Rover Boys Under Canvas; Or, The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine
2. dick, said, jake - Brandon of the Engineers
3. jack, said, pepper - The Putnam Hall Cadets; or, Good Times in School and Out
4. occur, revolution, degree - In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
5. occur, revolution, degree - In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.

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?":

boys, time, cadets, man, way, something, school, others, day, nothing, place, anything, room, boy, father, side, night, hand, fellows, men, water, things, thing, head, girls, face, one, fellow, boat, captain, matter, friends, camp, house, work, eyes, road, money, end, cadet, business, moment, door, number, trouble, crowd, morning, girl, voice, game

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, do, said, is, be, have, were, ''s, did, are, came, been, get, know, see, go, went, think, going, answered, got, come, want, cried, asked, made, put, take, let, ''m, make, say, has, looked, ''ve, saw, thought, took, am, tell, ''re, heard, found, knew, added, being, keep, left, give

Proper Nouns

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

dick, jack, rover, tom, fred, hall, andy, sam, _, putnam, captain, jake, randy, mr., dutton, baxter, colby, kenwardine, flapp, martell, clare, pepper, brown, rovers, hamilton, nappy, dan, slugger, dale, paul, spouter, larry, colonel, harry, gif, fuller, sobber, werner, lew, uncle, billy, powell, academy, don, boys, george, mumps, crabtree, codfish, strong

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, he, you, it, his, they, we, him, me, them, their, my, your, she, her, us, our, himself, ''em, its, themselves, one, yourself, myself, ''s, em, yours, itself, mine, ourselves, herself, ours, yourselves, i''m, it''s, you''ll, yo, theirs, hers, wo''k, we''ll, thy, t''ink, owit----, oneself, he''d

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?"

good, other, little, more, old, young, much, several, few, big, first, right, next, sure, long, best, great, better, many, last, same, new, glad, small, ready, bad, dark, large, open, afraid, such, short, white, second, fine, full, possible, military, regular, own, whole, high, hard, hot, true, strange, quick, easy, heavy, able

n''t, not, up, then, out, so, now, here, down, back, as, just, away, very, off, on, well, all, in, too, there, soon, over, again, only, much, once, more, still, never, around, rather, later, right, enough, perhaps, however, also, far, better, quickly, maybe, certainly, ever, yet, first, almost, along, long, forward

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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