Cleveland History Blogs | davidstaley | Activity http://clevelandhistory.org/members/davidstaley/activity/feed davidstaley - Activity Feed Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:13:09 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.3.1 en http://thatcamp.clevelandhistory.org/2009/12/18/data-mining-as-literary-criticism/ davidstaley wrote a new blog post: Data mining as literary criticism http://thatcamp.clevelandhistory.org/2009/12/18/data-mining-as-literary-criticism/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:05:03 +0000 davidstaley wrote a new blog post: Data mining as literary criticism
At THATCamp, I will be displaying Distant Readings I (text visualization, 2009), an installation that explores the aesthetics of data mining.  “Distant reading” is the term invented by the literary critic Franco Moretti to mean the opposite of “close reading,” which is the very focused analysis of the elements of a single text.  With “distant reading,” Moretti means [...]

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