Reviewing Jane Austen in Voyant, and our notebooks for R
Demo: Using the Wayback Machine (and its plugins)
Getting everyone onto RStudio Cloud.
Homework:
Watch: The Internet Archive wants to be a digital library for everything (4 mins)
Watch: About Project Gutenberg (American English Podcast)
Quick writing: Go to archive.org (Internet Archive) and to Project Gutenberg and find one document from each that interests you. Remember that the Internet Archive does not only contain text files. Share what you have found with the class in Chat by 0600, 20 October.
If you have not sent me your email address that you signed up for RStudio Cloud with, this is the first urgent thing to do! If you are not able to access RStudio Cloud, you should check your email and your spam folder for the invitation I sent you. DM the RLAC general if you are having trouble.
Exercise: Building your own corpus from Project Gutenberg and some higher level analyses.
Make sure that you complete the homework for today. You will be choose a text and a group of text of interest to you to do some higher level reading.
Notebook: Today's notebook is available in RStudio Cloud under the name "Using GutenbergR." It works with Project Gutenberg and the Little Cousin Series by Mary Blanchard Wade, a series of children's fiction from the 19th century.
Watch: short videos to be posted soon
Homework:
Sign up for the small group discussions about Assignment #1 either 18 or 20 September here.
Finish up Assignment #1
Once you have mastered the notebooks with the Little Cousin Series, try it with 3 texts of your own choice from Project Gutenberg. Choose three authors that you would like to compare word usage in.