Open Data Grant Winners to Conduct Sentiment Analysis of Thousands of French Revolution Pamphlets | Newberry

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Summary:

"Today, you can see trends on Twitter at a glance and get immediate insights into the public discourse surrounding current events. But how can we learn about trending topics and public opinion in centuries past? The recipients of the Newberry’s Open Data Grant intend to find out. The Open Data Grant helps support innovative scholarship that applies technologies such as digital mapping, text mining, and data visualization to digitized primary sources. Joseph Harder, a chemist and data scientist, and Mimi Zhou, an expert in digital humanities studying early French literature, will use the award to complete a sentiment analysis of the Newberry’s recently digitized collection of more than 30,000 French Revolution pamphlets...."

Link:

https://www.newberry.org/open-data-grant-winners-conduct-sentiment-analysis-thousands-french-revolution-pamphlets

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.funding oa.history oa.mining oa.ssh oa.visualizations oa.digital_humanities oa.humanities

Date tagged:

01/10/2018, 17:23

Date published:

01/10/2018, 05:27