Distant Reader - classification-T-gutenberg

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-28 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader gutenberg process, and the input was the result of a query applied to a local mirror of Project Gutenberg -- classification:"T". Then, for future reference, the results were saved to a Zip file complete with rudimentary bibliographics. The name of the file is input-file.zip. The Zip file was then unpacked and the contents saved to a cache as well as a directory of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 153 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 7,003,546 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 46,381 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 69. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

one, will, made, two, may, water, time, work, first, new, great, used, many, now, also, iron, use, much, air, well, steam, must, illustration, mr, machine, power, years, long, feet, fig, large, found, per, three, small, little, every, part, without, engine, means, light, man, make, gas, end, day, way, form, another

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, Knowledge Is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill., and Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-Technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-Date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and Many Other Recent Discoveries of Science.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

new york, per cent, united states, scientific american, years ago, scientific management, steam engine, one hundred, let us, horse power, well known, munn co, one side, one end, york city, feet long, carbonic acid, exposition company, american supplement, many years, louisiana purchase, silver medal, per hour, per minute, set forth, crown vo, cast iron, purchase exposition, compressed air, sulphuric acid, great britain, gold medal, electric current, two hundred, bronze medal, electric light, one day, takes place, san francisco, short time, cubic feet, per second, square inch, lady managers, hundred years, two years, one another, large number, long time, patent office

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, and Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

illustration, mr., new, fig, great, time, water, work, york, scientific, form, united, states, england, dr., gas, year, london, american, place, machine, john, st., current, steam, engine, paris, iron, air, patent, man, foot, europe, power, oil, light, footnote, america, acid, sir, professor, large, france, philadelphia, invention, state, plate, co., chapter, case

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be water, and The World''s Fair Or, Children''s prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when at home. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

water, fig, time - Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
great, time, new - Captains of Industry; or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
new, work, exposition - New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission
air, water, great - Inventions of the Great War
work, management, time - The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

water, time, work, iron, air, illustration, years, power, feet, machine, steam, use, part, man, engine, day, way, end, gas, means, men, number, place, case, invention, light, line, year, side, paper, form, pressure, point, hand, fact, heat, parts, country, process, surface, current, system, apparatus, length, world, miles, steel, acid, order, wire

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, was, are, have, were, has, been, had, made, being, used, found, do, make, said, having, given, called, see, known, shown, placed, taken, making, take, give, did, put, done, set, obtained, seen, produced, does, employed, required, find, say, carried, brought, described, become, built, formed, come, came, following, know, get

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

_, |, mr., new, fig, ., york, states, england, united, c., american, state, company, london, j., m., dr., h., c, st., w., john, co., america, e., a., sir, f., b., france, paris, exposition, commission, s., professor, europe, n., william, b, f, mrs., de, co, george, supplement, great, a, society, d.

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, he, his, its, they, we, i, their, them, our, him, you, my, us, her, itself, me, himself, she, your, themselves, one, myself, ourselves, herself, yourself, ''em, ours, thy, mine, yours, thee, theirs, ''s, ye, oneself, em, o, |1879|, yourselves, p, hay, thyself, hers, yer, y.--the, wis.--this, t''o, s, ready.--the

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, great, same, many, first, such, large, small, more, new, little, good, long, few, different, necessary, much, high, old, several, certain, electric, own, possible, various, best, present, scientific, important, second, ordinary, last, general, greater, whole, less, latter, full, simple, free, common, most, practical, similar, equal, short, special, fine, single, mechanical

not, so, very, then, only, up, as, more, now, also, out, most, well, thus, about, even, however, much, down, still, off, far, first, almost, here, just, again, too, together, therefore, on, nearly, always, never, soon, often, long, once, in, yet, ever, away, there, all, back, generally, easily, already, quite, less

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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