History 3816G / Digital Humanities 3902G:

Introduction to Digital History

Tuesdays, 6pm

Room UC-222

Contact me

Devon Elliott

delliot8@uwo.ca

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 5:00pm, SSC 1004 or by appointment

Presentation

Natalia
Open Library
https://openlibrary.org/

Presentations

Schedule:
http://bit.ly/1KHe4G0

Sampling: Distant Reading

Readings:

• Michel et al on Culturomics
• Grafton, “Loneliness and Freedom”
• Zimmer, “Google’s Ngram Viewer Goes Wild”

Sampling: Distant Reading

Technology:

• Google Ngrams

Close Reading vs. Distant Reading

Distant Reading and the Digital Humanities, Adam Crymble

Google Books

https://books.google.com/

Google Books

• What does it contain?
• How was it made?
• Controversies?

Google Ngrams

What is an n-gram?

Google Ngrams - bi-grams

What is an n-gram?

Google Ngrams - bi-grams

What is an n-gram?

Google Ngrams - bi-grams

What is an n-gram?

Google Ngrams - bi-grams

What is

is an

an n-gram?

INTERMISSION

Google Ngrams

https://books.google.com/ngrams

Have a great week!

See you on March 3.

Contact me at delliot8@uwo.ca or stop by SSC 1004 on Tuesdays, 4:00-5:00. I'm also available before and after class on Tuesdays, or by appointment.