Word Frequencies in Ekphrasis
Perhaps one of the longest held beliefs about ekphrastic poetry is that it is preoccupied with the stillness of the image. This bifurcation between frozen, silent images in visual art and active,...
View ArticlePreparing texts for network visualization
When I presented at MSA 13 earlier this month, I was unsatisfied with my methods for creating network visualizations of texts. I knew that preprocessing automatically would not work yet, since I have...
View ArticleCurating a Network of Wood and Would
In my current research, I argue that Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Monument” represents a more democratic attitude toward aesthetic objects than what we see from her contemporaries Robert Lowell and...
View ArticleTHATCampVA Tweet Visualization
When you spend most of your time using a tool in a way in which it was not intended, sometimes it’s satisfying to try to use it for what it was meant to do. This network visualization of Twitter...
View ArticleWhy use visualizations to study poetry?
[Note: This post was a DHNow Editor's Choice on May 1, 2012.] The research I am doing presently uses visualizations to show latent patterns that may be detected in a set of poems using computational...
View ArticleEkphrasis as an LDA Network in NodeXL
In an earlier post, I mention the value of visualizations as a means for exploring topic modeling data. That particular example used a small model of 276 poems labeled “ekphrastic” out of a much...
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