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Introduction to
DIGITAL HISTORY
HIST 1993 - FALL 2015
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Syllabus
Course Description
Prerequisites
Requirements and Grading
Policies and Expectations
Class Schedule
Projects
Home
Syllabus
Course Description
Prerequisites
Requirements and Grading
Policies and Expectations
Class Schedule
Projects
Topic Modeling Equiano and the Slave Narrative Genre
Project Overview
Literary Contexts
Literary Contexts: Tropes and Influence
Literary Contexts: Genre Prototype?
Methodology
Getting the Data: False Start
Getting the Data: Mining
Interlude: Massaging the Metadata
Preparing Data for Mallet
Mallet: Proof Reader and Topic Modeler
Methodology: Topic Outputs
Visualizations
Visualizing a massive dataset: Technical Obstacles
Visualizing a massive dataset: What Good are Sparklines?
Dynamic Sparklines
Topics by Paragraph: Equiano and his Predecessors
The Talking Book
Bibliography
Visualizations
by Matthew McClellan