The Distant Reader is a tool for reading.

Joined December 2019
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I have created a catalog of .3 million open access items, mostly journal articles and etexts. See: catalog.distantreader.org 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: distantreader.org/stacks/car…
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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. distantreader.org/blog/visua…
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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 -> dh.crc.nd.edu/tmp/modern-alc…

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An outline of how to use text mining to address a research question: sites.nd.edu/emorgan/2021/10…
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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 --> bit.ly/3zPdfbI
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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: reader-toolbox.readthedocs.i…

A blog posting describing how to search Project Gutenberg at the #distantreader sites.nd.edu/emorgan/2021/08…
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I have written some instructions for searching #cord19 via the #distantreader -- sites.nd.edu/emorgan/2021/07…
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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 sites.nd.edu/emorgan/2021/07… Feedback welcome.

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Embrace information overload. Use the #distantreader distantreader.org
A #distantreader blog posting about a scholarly journal and "study carrels" sites.nd.edu/emorgan/2021/05…
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The #distantreader identifies with and assumes much of a thing called the Lo-Fi Manifesto: kairos.technorhetoric.net/12…

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Using the #distantreader, I tried to learn about "mRNA". First I created a data set of 90 articles: bit.ly/3s2shHs The keyword cloud looked like this:
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Using rudimentary noun-verb analysis, what does mrna do? It "is", "has", "contains", "does", "increases", etc. library.distantreader.org/ca…

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How is mRNA described? Therapeutic. Effective. Different. Etc. library.distantreader.org/ca…

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Using information extraction techniques, I created lists. The first was a list "mrna is" sentences. "mRNA is a promising approach." library.distantreader.org/ca…

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