The Difficulties of Humanities Data Analytics

Birkbeck Institute for Data Analytics. 25th May 2017.

A book

Professor Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London

Digital Humanities and Contemporary Literature

  • Technico-legal challenges and DRM
  • Statistical methods and HARKing
  • Very messy data

Most frequent word divergences

Differences between most frequent words in the sections of Cloud Atlas

PoS trigrams with >= 1.9 SDs

Part of speech trigrams with more than 1.9 standard deviations of variance in any one section

Word Dating

Dating the words in Ewing Part I

The End

Thank you!

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