Progress to Date (and Future Scheduling)
- Status Reports (Developer Task Assignments page)
- NY Times
- WSJ
- The Guardian
- NPR
- This Week:
- Wednesday (Aug. 5), 1 pm -- Planning meeting (joined by Scott Kleinman). The goals of this meeting will include:
* Discussion of scrubbing and other preprocessing steps
* Discussion of topic modeling strategy
* Discussion of ideas for eventual public-facing interface
Setting Priorities for Other Publications to Collect
- What should our priorities be in collecting other publications beyond the ones we already have?
For example, here are some possibilities:
* Other U.S. cities (e.g., Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune)?
* Online media news/popular media (eg., Huff Post, Salon)
* TV/Radio media
* Middlebrow (e.g., USA Today)
* Magazines (e.g., New Republic, LA Review of Books)?
* Economic press (e.g., Forbes, Business Insider, The Economist)?
* Higher-education press (e.g., Chronicle of Higher Education, Higher Ed)?
* Campus papers (e.g., Harvard Crimson, Yale Daily News, UCLA Bruin)?
* Commencement speeches.
* Articles on "sciences"?
* Social media
- Other nations: UK (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India)?
- At least one other U.S. city
- born-digital publications
- One higher-ed publication
- Economic press
- Etc.
Observations and Findings From Human Reading of Our Corpus
- General observations?
- Our research questions? (example topic model of NYT 2014 "humanities") (Antconc analysis of the same files)
- What are the topics with which the humanities are associated?
- What are the most important topics with which the humanities are associated?
- What are the kinds of topics in the corpus? What is their order of importance?
- To what degree can we see topics that coincide with disciplinary definitions of the humanities (e.g., literature, history, philosophy, classics)?
- Also search for relation of sciences in the corpus in relation to humanities.
- How are the humanities related to the arts relative to the social sciences?
- To what degree can we see institutional, political, academic, and other domains of topics?
- Can we identify the articles that are prevalently about the humanities in order to see what topics have a high weight in them?
- What are collocates and n-grams of "humanities"?
- To what degree does searching on collocates and n-grams produce a corpus that overlaps with our existing corpus?
- How do topics vary by nation and decade?
- identify important historical moments and correlation with the humanities?
- how does public discourse about the humanities correlate with educational facts on the ground (enrollment, tuition, etc.)
- What are the "hot" button topics in public discourse about the humanities? How do they compare to the way academics and foundations discuss the humanities?
- Fixes for our scrubbing list ("List of Fixes Needed for Raw Texts")?
Wednesday (Aug. 5), 1 pm -- Planning meeting (joined by Scott Kleinman). The goals of this meeting will include:
* Discussion of scrubbing and other preprocessing steps
* Discussion of topic modeling strategy
* Discussion of ideas for eventual public-facing interface