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Presenting tmtyro

tools

teaching

literature

code

tmtyro provides an intuitive interface for text mining using the tidytext format.

Rejections of a Machine Venus

Reflections on Lawrence Durrell, DH, and AI

literature

ai

wem

As a work exploring computational analysis and creation, Lawrence Durrell’s Revolt of Aphrodite engages anxieties that are increasingly relevant.

Finding Topics in Text Data

code

methods

teaching

Way back in 2016, I shared some code to standardized a topic-modeling workflow. For one who was still relatively new to R, this workflow helped me speed through the process…

CSS Tweaks for Quarto

blog

transition

css

Over a year ago, I wrote about updating this blog’s theme and Hugo back-end, embarrassingly vowing that it “will rise again.” Then the poor thing just lay there.¹ In the…

Lazarus is Dead

blog

transition

Lazzie Bear and I said our goodbyes during one of my many teenage urges to grow up faster, but the sight of a hatted, scarved polar bear still evokes everything of…

Introducing Stylo2gg

tools

stylometry

code

The stylo2gg package makes it easy to present stylo data using ggplot2, offering up additional useful options for annotation and understanding.

Updates to Word Vector Utilities

code

tools

wem

Updates to the code for word vector utility functions add new capabilities, change old behavior, and need an explanation.

Word Vector Utilities

code

tools

wem

The wordVectors package from Ben Schmidt and templates from the Women Writers Project have been very useful as I begin doing work with word vector embeddings. To simplify some things and to help with exploring results, I wrote some utility functions, which this post explains how to use.

Selecting a Better Corpus

code

corpus-building

Building on the previous blog post, this one gets more novels from more countries over more years. Compared to the last corpus, this one is huge, at 13,334 titles. (Yes, sometimes bigger is better.)

Selecting a Literary Corpus from Wikipedia

code

corpus-building

Selecting a sufficiently sized collection of texts for historical analysis is tough. When I try to list all the novels I can think of to provide context for a project, I’m…

Why Blog, Why Today?

blog

This is the perfect time not to start a blog, yet here I am. It feels necessary to start with a preface, with something to explain why I’m doing this, why I’m doing it now, and what I hope will result. In the spirit of the web, here’s a listicle of the Top Six Reasons I’ve Begun a Blog. (You won’t believe number three!)