Seventh Blog Post: tribe data-mining previous blog posts
In class, our tribe used two applications to analyze data from three of our previous blog posts including our posts discussing electronic literature, un-creative writing and Kurzweil. The first application we used was Voyant, a open-source and web based text analysis tool. First, we copied the text from all three blog posts and analyzed them three separate times.
When viewing the resulting charts for the electronic literature post, we can see that literature, el (abbreviation for electronic literature), electronic, digital and story were the most frequent/significant words used. I say significant because short words such as his, her, be or with are not included in this analysis because they are necessary but do not clearly describe the theme of any piece.
After analyzing the results for the uncreative writing blog post we see that thoughts, writing, uncreative, youtube and comment were the most frequently used words. This really kind of sums up the themes of the post because it was about writing poetry through listening to audio clips from Youtube or creating a piece using the Youtube comment section.
Our analysis of our Kurzweil post resulted in the most frequently used words being human, intelligence, virtual, artificial and singularity. Once again, these terms are a good five word summary of the post.
Next, we input the text from all three aforementioned blog posts to create an analysis with Voyant. This allows us to see what to see what topics are reoccurring in our blog posts from a sample selection of our digital humanities class. The resulting topics give a good sense of themes contained in this class. I personally would have a hard time trying to summarize the class in five words. It is interesting to see the results of this text analysis because it does give a good feel for the digital humanities in five words.
The five most frequently used words when analyzing all three posts at once were human, intelligence, literature. virtual and created.
Finally, we analyzed the top five most frequently used words using Google Books Ngram Viewer. This tool allows us to search words and it creates a chart showing how frequently they are used within millions of pieces of text which Google has available. We set the chart to start at pieces from 1940 because this is around the time when the first computers were beginning to be built. The results are interesting. Human is the most highly used word out of this set. It makes sense because humans are what the humanities are all about.
By: Robbie, Connor, Mary-Lynn
When viewing the resulting charts for the electronic literature post, we can see that literature, el (abbreviation for electronic literature), electronic, digital and story were the most frequent/significant words used. I say significant because short words such as his, her, be or with are not included in this analysis because they are necessary but do not clearly describe the theme of any piece. 
After analyzing the results for the uncreative writing blog post we see that thoughts, writing, uncreative, youtube and comment were the most frequently used words. This really kind of sums up the themes of the post because it was about writing poetry through listening to audio clips from Youtube or creating a piece using the Youtube comment section.
Our analysis of our Kurzweil post resulted in the most frequently used words being human, intelligence, virtual, artificial and singularity. Once again, these terms are a good five word summary of the post.
Next, we input the text from all three aforementioned blog posts to create an analysis with Voyant. This allows us to see what to see what topics are reoccurring in our blog posts from a sample selection of our digital humanities class. The resulting topics give a good sense of themes contained in this class. I personally would have a hard time trying to summarize the class in five words. It is interesting to see the results of this text analysis because it does give a good feel for the digital humanities in five words.
The five most frequently used words when analyzing all three posts at once were human, intelligence, literature. virtual and created.
Finally, we analyzed the top five most frequently used words using Google Books Ngram Viewer. This tool allows us to search words and it creates a chart showing how frequently they are used within millions of pieces of text which Google has available. We set the chart to start at pieces from 1940 because this is around the time when the first computers were beginning to be built. The results are interesting. Human is the most highly used word out of this set. It makes sense because humans are what the humanities are all about.
By: Robbie, Connor, Mary-Lynn
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