Master Menu

Here, for ease of navigation, is a list of all posts on the blog. Most are by Michael Witmore, some are by Jonathan Hope, and there are a few guest posts.

They are listed here in reverse chronological order (most recent to oldest).

This is a blog, not a refereed journal, so the material here is mixed. Some posts are written with a public audience in mind; others are repositories of links and material; others are more like notes to ourselves. Posts record what we thought at the time of posting: let’s hope we know better now, eh? [JH]

Data and Metadata

Beth Ralston and Jonathan Hope (2015/07/09) – first release of spreadsheets with the VEP drama corpus metadata and Docuscope frequencies

Finding “Distances” Between Shakespeare’s Plays 2: Projecting distances onto new bases with PCA

Michael Witmore (2015/07/06) –

Finding “Distances” Between Shakespeare’s Plays 1

Michael Witmore (2015/06/23) – comparing texts using PCA

Now Read This: A Thought Experiment

Michael Witmore (2015/04/05) Three ways of “getting at genre”: expert report, quantitative description of linguistic patterns, and biological response.

Mapping the ‘Whole’ of Early Modern Drama

Beth Ralston and Jonathan Hope (2015/03/26) Results of PCA experiments on Early Modern Drama corpus.

‘the size of it all carries us along’ – a new kind of literary history?

Jonathan Hope (2014/11/30) Materials to support Hope’s presentations at Helsinki Collegium Big Data Event 1-2 December 2014.

The Novel and Moral Philosophy 3: What Does Lennox Do with Moral Philosophy Words?

Julie Park (2014/10/26) Witmore’s interpretation of the differences between the two topical fields we are associating with the novel and moral philosophy.

The Novel and Moral Philosophy 2: Telling and Feeling, Aunts and Letters

Julie Park (2014/10/25) Discussion of the eighteenth-century novel and Lennox’s Euphemia in the context of Serendip analysis.

The Novel and Moral Philosophy 1: What does Charlotte Lennox have to do with Adam Smith?

Eric Alexander and Michael Witmore (2014/10/23) Introducing Serendip, our topic model software – and looking for the language of the novel.

Digital approaches to the language of Shakespearean tragedy

Jonathan Hope (2014/09/09) Materials to support our paper in the Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

Adjacencies, virtuous and vicious, and the forking paths of library research

Michael Witmore (2014/07/08) Browsing in open-stack libraries, PCA, subject classification, topic models

Quantification and the language of later Shakespeare

Jonathan Hope (2014/05/07) Links to Jonathan Hope et Michael Witmore, « Quantification and the language of later Shakespeare », Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare, 31 | 2014, 123-149 (see the publications page for a full list of publications)

Hamlet in five words

Jonathan Hope (2014/05/06) Links to Jonathan Hope and Michael Witmore, ‘Hamlet in five words’ on The Globe’s Globe to Globe Hamlet blog (see the publications page for a full list of publications)

Scotland’s Collections and the Digital Humanities

Jonathan Hope (2014/05/01) Collection of links for those starting in DH

The Future of the Humanities will be Demand-Led

Michael Witmore (2014/03/31) “the driver of humanistic thinking will be people – all kinds of people – who are puzzled by the mysteries of being human and want to talk about them”.

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Jonathan Hope (2014/03/07) Notes and references for a series of presentations by Hope, April-July 2014. Library and information science; hyperdimensional geometry; pictures of kittens.

#MuchAdo #AboutData

Jonathan Hope, Emma Pallant, Heather Froehlich (2014/03/05) Exchanges with Emma Pallant as she rehearses Much Ado

Macbeth: The State of Play

Jonathan Hope (2014/02/20) Publication details for Hope and Witmore, 2014, ‘The language of Macbeth’ in Ann Thompson (ed.), Macbeth: The State of Play (London: Arden) (see the publications page for a full list of publications)

Visualising English Print 1530-1800, Genre Contents of the Corpus

Michael Witmore (2013/12/12) Overview of genre in the VEP test corpus

Visualising English Print 1530-1800: The Corpus, Tag Sets, and Topics

Michael Witmore (2013/11/27) VEP test corpus: VARD

Manuscript Average

Michael Witmore (2013/07/20) A link to a post by Jesse Hurlbut about examining manuscript pages as image aggregates.

Fuzzy Structuralism

Michael Witmore (2013/07/20)

An Ecology of Critical Gestures: Point, Circle and Name

Michael Witmore (2013/02/17)

New Image from Original Post from Google Books

Michael Witmore (2013/02/01) An image showing changes in the catalogued subject of Library of Congress books over the course of several hundred years, supplied by John Orwant from Google.

What Is Influence?

Jonathan Hope (2013/01/29) How can we ‘count’ influence? Below the line contributions from Jockers and Underwood

What Happens in Hamlet?

Jonathan Hope (2012/08/17) Pronouns in Hamlet

What Do People read During a Revolution?

Michael Witmore, Robin Valenza (2012/07/11)

The Time Problem: Rigid Classifiers, Classifier Postmarks

Michael Witmore (2012/04/16)

Google Books: Ratio of Inked Space to Blank Space

Michael Witmore (2012/04/14)

Shakespeare’s mythic vocabulary – and his invisible grammar

Jonathan Hope (2012/02/14) Reports work on Shakespeare’s vocabulary by Hugh Craig, Elliott and Valenza