Over the last decade topic modelling has become increasingly more popular among humanities scholars studying textual data. In a nutshell, topic modelling is an algorithmic tool that can identify the key topics of a text; furthermore, in a collection of…
Author: Gabor Toth
By Gabor M. Toth and Brendan Dooley Any way you look at it, our analysis of the documents in the Euronews Project involves sampling. To understand early modern news culture we need to take soundings within a vast amount of…
By Gabor M. Toth and Brendan Dooley When studying a data set the very first step is a descriptive analysis. This is meant to get a quantitative overview of the data. A descriptive statistical analysis tells how skewed or balanced…
The digital study of early modern news culture involves a geographical layer. News were sent from one city to another; they were circulating in different geographical regions and spreading information about remote locations. In order to study the geographical layer…