Distant Reader

The Distant Reader is a tool for reading.

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I have created a catalog of .3 million open access items, mostly journal articles and etexts. See: https://t.co/UK1q5cZwvZ The ultimate goal is enable to people: search, refine, and create a study carrel from the results.

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The other day I wrote an essay rooted in a bibliography on DEI in libraries and compiled by
@peggygriesinger. I used the Reader to help me with the analysis. See: https://t.co/nJq9pSBy5T

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Yesterday I (#distantreader) finished writing a blog posting on the topic of visualizing the size and scope of a library collection. Fun with RDF. https://t.co/vlEINfRfe6

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a #distantreader update - https://t.co/Sc6b3uhCET

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Modern Alchemy - This presentation describes and demonstrates the Distant Reader. Given an almost arbitrary amount of unstructured data (text), the Reader creates a corpus, does analysis against it, and outputs a data set -- information -> https://t.co/llpr4ivC1c

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An outline of how to use text mining to address a research question: https://t.co/xk5NK7ZGjK

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Introducing the Distant Reader Toolbox, a command-line tool for feature extraction, semantic indexing, topic modeling, and all around analysis against a corpus --> https://t.co/JRShlXD08I

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I have been writing code and documentation intended to assist students, researchers, and scholars in the use of #distantreader study carrels. The work is coming along well: https://t.co/vbHMMBekYz

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A blog posting describing how to search Project Gutenberg at the #distantreader https://t.co/uP0WP3McBv

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I have written some instructions for searching #cord19 via the #distantreader -- https://t.co/kXDCx28OYo

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In the coming week I will be facilitating a hands-on workshop on the #distantreader, and I have posted the instructions at https://t.co/2EpoXe0ggi Feedback welcome.

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Embrace information overload. Use the #distantreader https://t.co/Xetty2Fmp9

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A #distantreader blog posting about a scholarly journal and "study carrels" https://t.co/iDN7xmvryg

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The #distantreader identifies with and assumes much of a thing called the Lo-Fi Manifesto: https://t.co/iYLtQ1kjma

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Using the #distantreader, I tried to learn about "mRNA". First I created a data set of 90 articles: https://t.co/VPpVkAELR2 The keyword cloud looked like this:

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Topic modeling highlighted two promising open access articles: 1) https://t.co/astWon2tol ...

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and 2) https://t.co/NQ1inr8mCo

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Using rudimentary noun-verb analysis, what does mrna do? It "is", "has", "contains", "does", "increases", etc. https://t.co/5WDZtnQ7ZH

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How is mRNA described? Therapeutic. Effective. Different. Etc. https://t.co/8nGtxkQx4w

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Using information extraction techniques, I created lists. The first was a list "mrna is" sentences. "mRNA is a promising approach." https://t.co/5AunDNbZoW