Week 5

6 October (synchronous Zoom class)

What is Project Gutenberg?

Who was Leigh Brackett? Who was E.E. Smith? Who was Lee Hawkins Garby?

Explore: Is there a difference when women write science fiction? Using a mini corpus with science fiction (with AntConc, Voyant) (in Drive)

Discuss: Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes?

Pro tip: If you would like to download your own version of Voyant Tools (and not depend on their servers, or keep your texts confidential) see here.

Homework:

1. Sign up your free account in RCloud. Once you have your account, please submit the email address and name that you used for it so that I can add you to our class space. Use the form below:

2. Review and skim: Who Jane Austen was. Use the built in corpus in Voyant Tools to explore her corpus. Skim the abovementioned article Gender and Cultural Analytics.

8 October (asynchronous class)

Watch: (just to get an idea of how the notebooks work) Introduction to R Notebooks in RStudio, Part I and Part II (15 mins)

Intro to RStudio Cloud (6 mins)

Introduction to R and Tidyverse (12 mins) - once you have an RStudio Cloud account you can actually do all of what this video teaches you to do by creating a a "project".

Watch: Two short videos I made about using RStudio Cloud. Part 1 (11 mins) and Part 2 (12 mins)

Try RNotebook: Reading Jane Austen with R

Try RNotebook: Reading Qur'an with R

If you would like to refresh your memory about the way that Reading All of Jane Austen works in Voyant Tools, you can watch this video.

Optional: You may be interested in how these kinds of reading would be done in languages other than English. Check out this article "Preparing Non-English Texts for Computational Analysis" (Dombrowski). Quinn's course at Stanford this fall--more advanced than our own--deals with "reading like a computer" but not in English: https://github.com/quinnanya/dlcl204.