subject-cattle-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 2021-06-01 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 -- facet_subject:"Cattle". 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.

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Size

There are 9 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 630,339 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 70,037 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 75. 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:

may, th, dam, cattle, one, bred, sire, treatment, will, disease, animal, calved, two, animals, time, john, first, cow, red, milk, mr, well, water, imported, cases, symptoms, white, property, made, also, mass, description, great, much, found, good, head, must, cows, blood, three, long, conn, back, large, many, day, calf, skin, young

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Special Report on Diseases of Cattle, Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management; with the Diseases to Which They Are Subject, and the Remedies Best Adapted to Their Cure, and Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy''s Adventures in the Far West.

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

per cent, th dam, calved april, dam beauty, calved may, april th, mouth disease, north star, sire albert, calved june, dam lady, mucous membrane, calved march, dam old, united states, old fancy, may th, dam fancy, young denton, live stock, june th, massachusetts society, may also, three times, texas fever, march th, dam imported, east windsor, new york, calved july, calved september, one side, carbolic acid, calved february, takes place, blood vessels, prince albert, frank quartly, sire duke, cold water, warm water, calved december, north american, disease may, lilac th, may become, sire frank, crown vo, september th, dam victoria

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons Special Report on Diseases of Cattle, and Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, and Feeding and Management; with the Diseases to Which They Are Subject, and the Remedies Best Adapted to Their Cure.

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:

mr., illustration, cattle, time, new, good, cow, animal, texas, states, scotland, north, john, indians, form, disease, calf, young, year, wound, worth, water, united, tuberculosis, treatment, thom, symptoms._--the, symptom, state, sperm, south, society, skin, sire, rev, result, professor, plate, page, museum, mouth, milk, membrane, massachusetts, man, london, lite, life, large, june

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 dam, and Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. 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:

1. treatment - Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
2. cattle - Florida: An Ideal Cattle State
3. dam - Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons

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:

1. disease, treatment, cattle - Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
2. cattle, john, time - Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy''s Adventures in the Far West
3. dam, 2d, bred - Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons
4. horns, animal, ox - Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.
5. 1066, laterals, leveling - Determining the Age of Cattle by the Teeth

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?":

cattle, dam, disease, animal, treatment, animals, time, cow, milk, water, cases, property, description, sire, blood, symptoms, head, day, cows, skin, calf, part, stock, body, side, mouth, case, way, years, place, hand, parts, man, condition, inflammation, days, herd, food, 4th, form, cause, feet, grass, diseases, work, country, illustration, horns, fig, 5th

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, are, was, have, bred, been, has, were, had, imported, made, found, being, calved, used, got, owned, given, said, do, become, give, taken, known, make, following, get, take, seen, see, becomes, kept, called, cut, did, having, put, applied, came, come, affected, turned, does, go, ''s, appear, went, brought, cause

Proper Nouns

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

_, john, sire, dam, conn., h., mass., calved, mr., c., 3d, red, n., 2d, s., |, young, e., y., mr, comet, north, albert, m., county, j., april, l., w., r., duke, bloomfield, may, beauty, fancy, lady, william, hurlbut, b., new, arabella, winchester, england, rose, prince, june, george, bull, buffalo, patterson

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, they, he, his, i, their, its, them, we, him, you, my, her, our, she, me, your, himself, itself, themselves, us, one, myself, ''em, ourselves, herself, ''s, mine, yourself, yours, em, treatment._--they, you''re, treatment._--their, thumps, this:--, rig''"--they, oneself, hay, d''yer, antispasmodics.--medicines, 6.--was

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, such, first, great, good, large, same, white, many, little, small, old, more, few, long, red, general, much, best, several, short, necessary, full, different, 4th, common, young, certain, various, possible, last, cold, present, dry, second, important, new, strong, better, soft, most, whole, considerable, free, open, hard, natural, own, lower, high

not, very, so, up, more, then, well, also, only, as, out, most, even, however, down, now, usually, often, off, too, sometimes, generally, back, never, much, soon, almost, thus, always, about, far, especially, still, again, first, once, frequently, less, on, in, together, long, therefore, away, n''t, here, just, rather, forward, easily

Next steps

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