Hermeneuti.ca – The Rhetoric of Text Analysis

This is an outline for a workshop on visualization with Voyeur. It is based on a workshop given at DH 2010 in London, England.

1.0 Introduction

• The workshop leaders will introduce themselves:
  • Susan Brown, University of Alberta, University of Guelph, sbrown (at) uoguelph (dot) ca
  • Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta, geoffrey (dot) rockwell (at) ualberta (dot) ca, http://www.geoffreyrockwell.com
  • Stan Ruecker, University of Alberta, sruecker (at) ualberta (dot) ca, http://www.ualberta.ca/~sruecker/
  • Stéfan Sinclair, McMaster University, sgs (at) mcmaster (dot) ca, http://stefansinclair.name/
• Overview
  Voyeur is currently a beta release by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell. Voyeur is the next generation in a series of text analysis tools that include HyperPo and TAPoRware. It provides tables and graphs related to word use across a single document or a collection. Voyeur adds, among other things, the ability to handle much larger files than the previous tools could.
  • First, we will look at how to use Voyeur with a single text, and examine some of the visualizations that are possible. 
  • Then we will learn how to use Voyeur with a corpus.
  • You will also have the opportunity to try Voyeur on your own corpus, if you have one.
  • Finally, we will examine some of the more advanced features provided by Voyeur.
• Now make sure you can connect to the wireless
• Connect to Hermeneuti.ca and explore the resources there. Here are some useful links:
  
  • This workshop outline that should have been - http://hermeneuti.ca/node/196/
  • The workshop Wiki page - http://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/General:Digital_Humanities_2011_Workshop
  • Voyeur Tools Introduction - http://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/General:Voyeur
  • Quick Guide to Voyeur - http://hermeneuti.ca/voyeur/users
  • Voyeur Tools - http://voyeurtools.org (backup version - http://voyeur.hermeneuti.ca)
  • Individual Voyeur tool descriptions and links - http://entry.tapor.ca/

Here is a list of links for the Visualization for Literary History:

• http://taporware.ualberta.ca/
• http://voyeur.hermeneuti.ca/
• http://taporware.ualberta.ca/sampleDocs/plainText.txt - Introduction, Preface, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
• http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/84/pg84.txt - This is the Gutenberg version of the full text

Here are the tools to try for the full Voyeur interface:

• Cirrus (Austen): http://voyeur.hermeneuti.ca/tool/Cirrus/?corpus=1308408654248.9846&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt
• Weighted Centroid: http://taporware.ualberta.ca/~taporware/otherTools/wcentroid.shtml - Use short Frankenstein
• Principal Component Analysis: http://taporware.ualberta.ca/~taporware/betaTools/pca.shtml - Use short Frankenstein
• Distribution Graph: http://taporware.ualberta.ca/~taporware/textTools/patterndistrib.shtml - Use short Frankenstein

Now lets try the full text again in the full Voyeur:

• Austen: http://voyeur.hermeneuti.ca/?corpus=1308408654248.9846&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt
• Eliot: http://voyeur.hermeneuti.ca/?corpus=1308408806481.5235&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt
• Bronte: http://voyeur.hermeneuti.ca/?corpus=1308408859780.4793&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt

For a list of tools see: http://entry.tapor.ca