Text Analysis
“Text Analysis” is a broad category that describes a number of specific methodologies that have been adapted from the fields of computer science and linguistics and used for humanistic inquiry.The overall goal, is to turn text into data for analysis.
Some of the most popular forms of text analysis include:
Examples of Scholarly Projects Using Text Analysis
- Mining the Dispatch, Robert K. Nelson
- Mining Martha Ballard’s Diary, Cameron Blevins
- America’s Public Bible, Lincoln Mullen
- “Everything on Paper will Be Used Against Me:” Quantifying Kissenger, Micki Kauffman
- Robots Reading Vogue, Lindsay King and Peter Leonard