Child of TopicKit: Finding Topics in Text Data

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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 of creating topic models to the…
Aug 2, 2023
James Clawson

CSS Tweaks for Quarto

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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 end, my…
Apr 3, 2023
James Clawson

Lazarus is Dead

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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…
Mar 20, 2022
James Clawson

Introducing Stylo2gg

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For the past few years, I’ve been using the R package stylo1 to study authorship in early modern texts and style in twentieth-century texts.2 The package is incredibly useful for gathering word frequencies from a collection of texts and visualizing…
Sep 1, 2020
James Clawson

Updates to Word Vector Utilities

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Updates to the code for word vector utility functions add new capabilities, change old behavior, and need an explanation.
Aug 27, 2020
James Clawson

Word Vector Utilities

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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.
Aug 12, 2019
James Clawson

Selecting a Better Corpus

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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.)
May 30, 2019
James Clawson

Selecting a Literary Corpus from Wikipedia

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Selecting a sufficiently sized collection of texts for historical analysis is tough. When I try to list all the novels I…
Mar 27, 2019
James Clawson

Why Blog, Why Today?

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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!)
Jan 28, 2019
James Clawson
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