Distant Reader - subject-mortality-freebo

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 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set 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 5 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 36,038 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 7,207 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 86. 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:

london, years, plague, year, st, one, parishes, parish, within, burials, died, many, now, christnings, tcp, mary, number, viz, text, city, may, anno, country, two, men, great, males, also, whereof, next, bills, diseases, buried, people, will, proportion, die, shall, much, eebo, females, without, women, whole, made, english, although, might, december, first

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality by John Graunt ... ; with reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city., 1602. 1603. A true report of all the burials and christnings within the Citie of London and the liberties thereof, from the 23. of December, 1602 to the 22. of December, 1603 VVhereunto is added the number of euery seuerall parish, from the 14. of Iuly, to the 22. of December, aswell within the Citie of London, and the liberties thereof, as in other parishes in the skirts of the citie and out of the freedome, adioyning to the Citie: according to the report made to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, by the Company of Parish Clearkes of the same citie., and A true report of all the burials and christnings within the city of London and the liberties thereof, from the 23. of December, 1602 to the 22. of December 1603 whereunto is added the number of euery seuerall parish, from the 14. of Iuly to the 22. of December, aswell within the citie of London and the liberties thereof, as in other parishes in the skirtes of the cittie, and out of the freedome adioyning to the cittie : according to the weekly reports made to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie / by the Company of Parish Clearks of the same citie..

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

early english, english books, per annum, books online, st mary, liberties thereof, text creation, creation partnership, ninety seven, page images, years old, characters represented, represented either, image sets, tcp schema, parish clerks, six years, parishes within, buried plague, report made, sixteen parishes, march march, september september, iune iune, christnings within, two hundred, great plague, st alhallowes, next year, christned buried, fourty years, st michael, seven parishes, october october, may may, fighting men, aprill aprill, two years, parish st, ianuary ianuary, december december, st martins, next observation, worshipful company, nouember nouember, aswell within, excellent maiestie, euery seuerall, seuerall parish, february february

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are 1602. 1603. A true report of all the burials and christnings within the Citie of London and the liberties thereof, from the 23. of December, 1602 to the 22. of December, 1603 VVhereunto is added the number of euery seuerall parish, from the 14. of Iuly, to the 22. of December, aswell within the Citie of London, and the liberties thereof, as in other parishes in the skirts of the citie and out of the freedome, adioyning to the Citie: according to the report made to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, by the Company of Parish Clearkes of the same citie. A general bill for this present year ending the 19. of December, 1665. according to the report made to the Kings most excellent Majesty. By the Company of Parish Clerks of London, &c., and Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the bills of mortality by John Graunt ... ; with reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city..

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:

tcp, plague, london, year, parishes, parish, females, diseases, december, country, city, christnings, casualties, burials, bills

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 london, and A true report of all the burials and christnings within the city of London and the liberties thereof, from the 23. of December, 1602 to the 22. of December 1603 whereunto is added the number of euery seuerall parish, from the 14. of Iuly to the 22. of December, aswell within the citie of London and the liberties thereof, as in other parishes in the skirtes of the cittie, and out of the freedome adioyning to the cittie : according to the weekly reports made to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie / by the Company of Parish Clearks of the same citie. 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:

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?":

years, year, p., viz, number, christnings, burials, parishes, proportion, men, people, women, text, part, time, texts, reason, times, characters, bills, work, others, books, xml, works, walls, image, table, diseases, man, hath, edition, difference, country, page, images, total, project, place, numbers, mortality, lordship, keying, increase, encoding, elements, eebo, data, whole, self

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, have, were, was, died, said, been, being, do, buried, made, die, according, say, make, born, having, encoded, mentioned, had, increased, found, finde, live, know, did, appears, seems, based, set, making, encreased, added, published, heard, given, come, answer, -, taken, take, kept, follows, following, dying, decreased, christned, represented

Proper Nouns

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

london, plague, st, parish, mary, tcp, anno, city, males, parishes, country, whereof, december, females, diseases, burials, martins, england, michael, casualties, alhallowes, year, church, accompt, text, bills, tei, eebo, rickets, c., liberties, english, trade, pox, oxford, peters, mortality, accompts, company, annum, john, world, citie, stone, proquest, phase, partnership, nicholas, hath, creation

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?"

i, it, we, their, they, them, our, your, my, his, you, themselves, me, its, he, us, her, himself, whereof, she, hay

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, many, same, great, more, such, next, few, several, whole, general, much, early, greater, true, first, english, old, little, most, greatest, good, new, own, available, former, single, second, less, subject, small, present, like, last, certain, illegible, fewer, clear, large, due, double, necessary, natural, least, latter, later, unhealthfull, scarce, possible, out

then, not, now, so, as, about, more, also, most, onely, very, thereof, well, out, therefore, in, up, that, much, moreover, first, is, even, all, above, there, together, far, yet, down, rather, away, over, again, sometimes, online, never, less, else, consequently, at, next, usually, too, otherwise, hence, probably, perhaps, indeed, enough

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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