subject-smoking-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 2021-05-25 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 8 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 265,815 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 33,226 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 92. 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:

xml, id, lemma, pos, pc, reg, tobacco, acp, sentence, unit, good, will, may, sp, speaker, one, yet, now, shall, vvb, haue, av, great, man, wine, selfe, much, also, vvi, like, pns, time, first, make, must, men, ale, many, well, therefore, pn, cs, beer, vpon, hydr, capn, smoke, cc, body, say

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Wine, Beer, and Ale Together by the Ears, Tobacco tortured, or, The filthie fume of tobacco refined shewing all sorts of subiects, that the inward taking of tobacco fumes, is very pernicious vnto their bodies; too too profluuious for many of their purses; and most pestiferous to the publike state. Exemplified apparently by most fearefull effects: more especially, from their treacherous proiects about the Gun-powder Treason; from their rebellious attempts of late, about their preposterous disparking of certaine inclosures: as also, from sundry other their prodigious practices. ..., and The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame''s [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet ....

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

pc xml, pos acp, unit sentence, pos vvb, vvb xml, pos av, vvi xml, pos vvi, pos pns, pns xml, av xml, sp xml, pos pn, cs xml, pn xml, sp sp, cc xml, pos po, po xml, pos cc, type contract, pos vvz, pc speaker, pos vvn, vvn xml, pos pno, pno xml, vvz xml, pos crq, pos vmb, lemma wine, wine pos, ab xml, beer pos, vmb xml, lemma beer, reg beer, beer beere, join left, contract lemma, rendition hi, lemma ale, ale pos, pos cs, sentence speaker, pos xx, xx xml, nn xml, publike good, wine speaker

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Wine, Beer, and Ale Together by the Ears The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame''s [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet ..., and Panacea, or, The universal medicine being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe : with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / by Dr Everard, &c..

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:

tobacco, tcp, man, vse, good, thou, selfe, pipe, king, haue, great, god, english, early, xml, wounds, who="a01425-wine, vpon, unit="sentence">.hauebeere

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 a01425, and A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. Which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, Blasius Multibibus, aliàs Drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... Faithfully rendred according to the originall Latine copie. 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. a01425 - Wine, Beer, and Ale Together by the Ears
2. tobacco - Tobacco tortured, or, The filthie fume of tobacco refined shewing all sorts of subiects, that the inward taking of tobacco fumes, is very pernicious vnto their bodies; too too profluuious for many of their purses; and most pestiferous to the publike state. Exemplified apparently by most fearefull effects: more especially, from their treacherous proiects about the Gun-powder Treason; from their rebellious attempts of late, about their preposterous disparking of certaine inclosures: as also, from sundry other their prodigious practices. ...
3. thy - A solemne ioviall disputation, theoreticke and practicke; briefely shadowing the lavv of drinking together, with the solemnities and controversies occurring: fully and freely discussed according to the civill lavv. Which, by the permission, priviledge and authority, of that most noble and famous order in the Vniversity of Goddesse Potina; Dionisius Bacchus being then president, chiefe gossipper, and most excellent governour, Blasius Multibibus, aliàs Drinkmuch ... hath publikely expounded to his most approved and improved fellow-pot-shots; touching the houres before noone and after, usuall and lawfull. ... Faithfully rendred according to the originall Latine copie.

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. a01425, xml, id - Wine, Beer, and Ale Together by the Ears
2. good, thou, tobacco - Tobacco tortured, or, The filthie fume of tobacco refined shewing all sorts of subiects, that the inward taking of tobacco fumes, is very pernicious vnto their bodies; too too profluuious for many of their purses; and most pestiferous to the publike state. Exemplified apparently by most fearefull effects: more especially, from their treacherous proiects about the Gun-powder Treason; from their rebellious attempts of late, about their preposterous disparking of certaine inclosures: as also, from sundry other their prodigious practices. ...
3. tobacco, leaves, use - Panacea, or, The universal medicine being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe : with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / by Dr Everard, &c.
4. haue, good, tabacco - A defence of tabacco vvith a friendly answer to the late printed booke called Worke for chimny-sweepers, &c.
5. fume, tobacco, taking - A briefe and accurate treatise, concerning, the taking of the fume of tobacco vvhich very many, in these dayes, doe too too licentiously vse. In which, the immoderate, irregular, and vnseasonable vse thereof is reprehended, and the true nature and best manner of vsing it, perspicuously demonstrated. By Tobias Venner, Doctor of Physicke in Bath, in the spring and fall, and at other times, in the borough of North Petherton neare to the ancient hauen towne of Bridge-water in Somersetshire.

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?":

xml, id="a01425, pc, p, pos="n1, man, men, time, pos="vvi, selfe, capn, smoke, body, pos="n2, nature, fume, cs, part, things, way, matter, reason, >, thing, bodies, good, leaves, themselues, people, bodie, doth, life, word, euery, others, use, persons, nothing, text, water, vse, parts, pos="po, rest, place, head, fumes, sort, heart, tillage

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, do, was, were, being, make, have, had, id="a01425, say, made, take, said, let, haue, taken, did, put, see, come, lemma="wine, concerning, am, know, selfe, brought, pray, lemma="your, called, according, set, found, become, tell, lemma="i, hath, reg="beer">beere

Proper Nouns

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

w, id="a01425, pos="acp, tobacco, pos="d, pos="vvb, thou, 〉, ◊, 〈, xml, pos="pns, /p, lemma="be, sp, pos="pn, speaker, pos="j, hydr, god, lemma="you, pos="cc, pos="vvz, lemma="i, lemma="and, pos="vvn, pos="av, hath, pos="pno, lemma="the, haue, sir, pos="po, lemma="a, tabacco, pos="crq, yea, pos="vmb, unit="sentence"/, lemma="of, pos="n, lord, lemma="for, lemma="beer, poore, lemma="he, lemma="ale, owne, type="contract2, ●

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, i, their, they, his, you, them, our, he, my, your, we, him, me, thy, thee, her, us, its, she, themselves, vp, himself, ours, theirs, one, mine, u, yours, lemma="thyself, p, vnto, o, y, s, l, hee, ye, th, ob, lemma="vapour, lemma="throw, lemma="himself, k, id="a01425-e106140, id="a01425-e104840, id="a01425-e104090, id="a01425-e103790, id="a01425-e102760, hugg''d

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?"

pos="n1, unit="sentence">.

not, so, then, very, now, also, more, most, yet, therefore, as, thus, thereof, well, onely, too, much, first, out, rather, forth, here, all, else, at, namely, especially, before, together, surely, up, there, long, away, once, in, never, ever, that, plainly, only, likewise, no, thereby, still, presently, sometimes, possibly, is, otherwise

Next steps

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