Post date: Jan 21, 2013 3:41:27 PM
Priscilla found an article in The Awl that she thought might be of interest to all of you. Enjoy, and thanks for sharing, Priscilla!
This article describes automated studies of the media using data mining and natural language processing approaches. It gives a good example of how complex data like text can be quantified at scale, and how useful answers to important questions can emerge from this. There are also some good cautions here. The paper this article is reporting on can be found here:
https://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/files/DigitalJournalism.pdf
Tim