{"id":5917,"date":"2015-11-04T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2015-11-04T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:37:51","slug":"literary-analysis-and-the-wolfram-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5917","title":{"rendered":"Literary Analysis and the Wolfram Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/digital-research-methods-cover-2015-medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5919\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/digital-research-methods-cover-2015-medium-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"digital-research-methods-cover-2015-medium\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been trying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/mathematica\/\">Wolfram Mathematica<\/a> more an more for analytics. I was introduced to Mathematica by Bill Turkel and Ian Graham who have done some impressive stuff with it. Bill Turkel has now created a open access, open content, and open source textbook <a href=\"http:\/\/williamjturkel.net\/digital-research-methods-with-mathematica\/\">Digital Research Methods with Mathematica<\/a>. The text is a Mathematica notebook itself so, if you have Mathematica you can actually use the text to do analytics on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfram has also posted an interesting blog entry on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wolfram.com\/2015\/10\/01\/literary-analysis-and-the-wolfram-language-jumping-down-a-reading-rabbit-hole\/\">Literary Analysis and the Wolfram Language: Jumping Down a Reading Rabbit Hole<\/a>. They show how you can generate word clouds and sentiment analysis graphs easily.<\/p>\n<p>While I am still learning Mathematica, some of the features that make it attractive include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It uses a &#8220;literate programming&#8221; model where you write notebooks meant to be read by humans with embedded code rather than writing code with awkward comments embedded.<\/li>\n<li>It has a lot of convenient Web, Language, and Visualization functions that let you do things we want to do in the digital humanities.<\/li>\n<li>You can call on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\">Wolfram Alpha<\/a> in a notebook to get real world knowledge like capital cities or maps or language information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been trying Wolfram Mathematica more an more for analytics. I was introduced to Mathematica by Bill Turkel and Ian Graham who have done some impressive stuff with it. Bill Turkel has now created a open access, open content, and open source textbook Digital Research Methods with Mathematica. The text is a Mathematica notebook &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5917\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Literary Analysis and the Wolfram Language<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,15,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-programming","category-text-analysis","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5920,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions\/5920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}