The Internet Archive’s Television News Archive is a cool way to search closed captions from TV shows. Here’s a bit more information on it: The Internet Archive’s Television News Archive, GDELT’s Television Explorer allows you to keyword search the closed captioning streams of the Archive’s 6 years of American television news and explore macro-level trends …
I came across this post on how to scrape data from Facebook pages for statistical analysis, and was motivated to give it a try. After thinking about which pages (including pages for educational organizations and communities) would be interesting to analyze, I looked at interactions with 2016 United States Presidential candidate’s Facebook pages. While the …
Some data from OKcupid: @9 min: 26 million matches per day on Tinder. Male preferences easy to predict, females more complex! Linear vs Multivariate Nonlinear preferences? Calling Geoffrey Miller … Tweet
Probably one of the more au courant methods in digital humanities scholarship is topic modeling, explanations of which range from the math-y and abstruse to the pictures and simple language approach. Briefly, topic modeling is one way of algorithmically reading texts at scale—the bigger the number, the better. In my previous draft of this post, …
In August 2014, the MSU Libraries purchased the text files of the Congressional Record and its predecessors the Annals of Congress, the Register of Debates, and the Congressional Globe for the years 1789 – 1918. These text files can be downloaded from on-campus and used by our researchers for text analysis purposes. Wanting to utilize …