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Word embeddings are a family of algorithms that can be remarkably effective at representing the meanings of words, and their relationships to each other. We'll cover the basics of word embeddings: what they do, how to train a model using word2vec, and how to use them to search for synonyms and analogies. And we'll look [...]
Millions of books have been digitized in the past two decades. Thanks to a 2014 court ruling, about 15 million books are available for computational analysis in the HathiTrust including data about word counts on each individual page. In the next year or two, similar data will become available for JStor and Portico books. This [...]
For most of the last decade digital humanists doing data analysis have chosen between R and Python. But in the past few years, the Javascript ecosystem has blossomed in a way that makes it a viable--and dare I say, fun--way to collaboratively share, explore, and analyze data. Students don't need to install anything to start [...]
