Content from What is the Reader?

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Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • What is the Distant Reader, and why should I care?

Objectives

  • Explain how text mining, natural langauge processing, and other machine learning computing techniques can be used to model narrative corpora, and in the end, assist the student, researcher, or scholar to address research questions from the mundane to the sublime.

  • Outline how the Distant Reader Toolbox facilitates much of this process.

Text mining, natural language processing, and machine learning as supplemental reading processes

[Eric was here.]

Key Points

  • Academics are expected to consume large narrative corpora
  • The application of text mining, natural language processing, and machine learning are supplemental methods for using and understanding narrative corpora
  • The Distant Reader and the Distant Reader Toolbox facilitate these processes

Content from Quick start

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Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • Really fast, what are some of the thing the Reader can do?

Objectives

  • To outline very quickly, some of the different functions of the Reader

On your mark. Get set. Go!

Once you have installed the Toolbox, there are quite a number of commands you can use for the purposes of analyzing (“reading”) a corpus. Here are just a few of them:

  • rdr - to output a menu of all commands

  • rdr --help - same as above, and remember, --help can be appended to any rdr command; for example: rdr download --help, rdr concordance --help, or rdr ngrams --help

  • rdr set -s local - denote the location of your Distant Reader data sets (“study carrels”); for now, accept the default

  • rdr download homer - download a previously created study carrel and save it in your local library

Key Points

  • The Reader provides many differentr ways to model a corpus

Content from Configure

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Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • How do I configure my Reader’s environment

Objectives

  • To learn how to define the location of your data sets and helper files

Your local library

The Distant Reader is modeled on a library. Distant Reader data sets are called “study carrels”, and collections of study carrels are called a “library”. My default, your collection of study carrels is saved in your home folder/directory in a folder/directory named “reader-library”. You can configure the location of the library using the rdr set command. Configure its location now, and accept the defaults:

  • rdr set -s local

You can confirm the location using the rdr get command. Confirm the good work you just did:

  • rdr get -s local

The Reader uses a few other applications to perform certain functions, most importantly MALLET, and Apache Tika. Set and get their configurations, and again, for right now, accept their defaults:

  • rdr set -s mallet

  • rdr set -s tika

  • rdr set -s notebooks

  • rdr get -s mallet

  • rdr get -s tika

  • rdr get -s notebooks

Key Points

  • The Reader needs to know where your data resides

  • The Reader needs to know where helper files and applications reside

Content from List words

Last updated on 2024-12-17 | Edit this page

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • What words exist in a study carrel

Objectives

  • To get a grasp of your data sets’ vocabulary

What is the vocabulary of your carrel?

Key Points

  • A data set is made up of sets of ngrams – words and phrases

Content from Browse the public library

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Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • What study carrels exist?

Objectives

  • To learn how to search & browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Search and browse the public library

You can search and browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Key Points

  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Content from Build your library

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Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • How can I create a local collection of study carrels

Objectives

  • To learn how to search and download previously created study carrels

Build your library

You can search and download previously created study carrels

Key Points

  • You can search and download previously created study carrels

Content from List words, revisited

Last updated on 2024-12-17 | Edit this page

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • What is the vocabulary of your set of local data sets

Objectives

  • To begin analyis of your local collection of data sets

List words, revisited

The same rdr ngrams commands can be use against local study carrels.

Key Points

  • There are different things you can do if your study carrels are saved locally

Content from Other - Wordle

Last updated on 2024-12-17 | Edit this page

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • What study carrels exist?

Objectives

  • To learn how to search & browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Search and browse the public library

You can search and browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Key Points

  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Content from Other - Antconc

Last updated on 2024-12-17 | Edit this page

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • What study carrels exist?

Objectives

  • To learn how to search & browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Search and browse the public library

You can search and browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Key Points

  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Content from Other - OpenRefine

Last updated on 2024-12-17 | Edit this page

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • What study carrels exist?

Objectives

  • To learn how to search & browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Search and browse the public library

You can search and browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Key Points

  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Content from Other - Topic Modeling Tool

Last updated on 2024-12-17 | Edit this page

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • What study carrels exist?

Objectives

  • To learn how to search & browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Search and browse the public library

You can search and browse the collection of previously created study carrels

Key Points

  • You can search and browse the set of previously created study carrels

Content from Other - Gephi

Last updated on 2024-12-17 | Edit this page

Estimated time: 12 minutes

Overview

Questions

  • How can I visualize network graphs using data exported from the Reader?

Objectives

  • To learn how to visualize network graphs from the output of the Reader.

Search and browse the public library

The student, researcher, or scholar can output content from a Reader study carrel in formats ammenable to visualzing with Gephi. [Eric was here, and then he went away.]

Key Points

  • Words are known by the company they keep, and network graphs illustdrate the relationships between nodes.