TWT2014+-+Your+robot+English+teacher

=48. Your robot English teacher: How Big Data is prompting a radical new way of looking at books =

Gary Schmidt (@Dr_Gary_Schmidt) gschmidt@post.harvard.edu

1. WHAT IS BIG DATA?

What is Big Data? [] A practical application by a UK PhD student: []

A basic word frequency counter: []

What are the Digital Humanities? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_humanities

Dickens, Austen, and Twain through a Digital Lens: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/technology/literary-history-seen-through-big-datas-lens.html?pagewanted=all

The Fleish-Kincaid Reading Ease Formula: http://www.readabilityformulas.com/flesch-reading-ease-readability-formula.php

2. SHAKESPEARE

Franco Moretti on Distant Reading: []

Using Data Mining to Distinguish Shakespeare’s Works from Other Authors:

(re: late Shakespeare collaborations such as //The Two Noble Kinsmen//, //Henry VIII//, and //Cardenio// (with John Fletcher)

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The Challenge of //Cardenio// ([])

Shakespeare visualizations using Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/

Open Source Shakespeare: [] []

3. WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Baby Name Wizard/Name Voyager: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=&sw=both&exact=false Sandra Cisneros's "My Name" excerpt from //House on Mango Street//: http://canadyconnections.pbworks.com/f/What's%2520in%2520a%2520name%2520pieces.pdf

4. FUN WITH NGRAMS:

Creators Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel's book //Uncharted//: http://www.amazon.com/Uncharted-Data-Lens-Human-Culture/dp/1594487456/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399080559&sr=1-1&keywords=erez+aiden

A review of the book: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/03/bright-lights-big-data.html

Their TED talk: What we learned from 5 million books: [] Their field of "culturomics": []

Rap Genius/Rap Stats: [] See also: []

-- Google Ngram Viewer

How to use it: [] []

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Final word: Is Technology taking over English departments? http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117428/limits-digital-humanities-adam-kirsch