In a previous post, a peer wrote that \u201ctopic modeling extends beyond the capacities of humans and opens new doors of understanding.\u201d They said so in the context of approaching data pulled from topic modeling with caution, as it does not necessarily outweigh \u201cthe interpretive capacities of human scholars.\u201d http:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/2018\/10\/25\/the-digital-humanities-contribution-to-topic-modeling\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 In contrast to this sentiment, \u201cA Report has Come Here\u201d sheds light not on what analysis of digital humanities cannot do, but on what it can. What we know off history is transmitted either orally or, more concretely, form documentation. Given that the people doing the documenting were often literate and upper class white men, quite a few voices (slaves, the poor, women, slaves etc) got left out along the way. Not only were their voices omitted, but what records we do\u00a0<\/span><\/i> have are what was said about them by the white men. This lack of data makes the small traces of these people that much more important. Whereas approaching all the texts of history manually would be akin to searching for a needle in a haystack, Klein demonstrates how text analysis and visualization \u201coffer some acknowledgment of the lives and stories that will forever remain unknown\u2026 challenges us to make the untold storied that we detect- those we might otherwise<\/i> pass over- instead expand in our eyes with significance and meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a previous post, a peer wrote that “topic modeling extends beyond the capacities of humans and opens new doors of understanding.” They said so in the context of approaching data pulled from topic modeling with caution, as it does not necessarily outweigh “the interpretive capacities of human scholars.” http:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/2018\/10\/25\/the-digital-humanities-contribution-to-topic-modeling\/  In contrast to this sentiment, … Continue reading “A Report Has Come Here – The Bright Side of Text Analysis and Visualization in Digital Humanities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/dcs104-fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}