Progress to Date (and Future Scheduling)

• Status Reports (Developer Task Assignments page)
• NY Times
• WSJ
• The Guardian
• "the arts" search to be added (cf. Alan's linguistic study on the issue)
• new collection workflow
• 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

• Next week (Project Development Calendar):
• Meet on Wednesday and Friday?

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

1. Other nations: UK (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India)?
2. At least one other U.S. city
3. born-digital publications
4. One higher-ed publication
5. Economic press
6. 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