EXPLORATORY THEMATIC ANALYSIS FOR HISTORICAL NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES

Digital Humanities 2014

Lausanne, Switzerland

9 July 2014

Jacob Eisenstein, Iris Sun, and Lauren Klein

Georgia Institute of Technology

Fletcher Hewes and Henry Gannett, Statistical Atlas of the United States (New York: Scribner’s, 1889)

Left: “Growth of the elements of the population: 1790 to 1890”Right: “Church accommodations (1870)

“Rank of states and territories in population at each census: 1790 – 1890”

Newspapers in dataset• Douglass Monthly• Frederick Douglass Paper• Freedom's Journal• The Christian Recorder• The Colored American• The National Era

• The North Star• The Provincial Freeman• The Weekly Advocate• National Anti-Slavery Standard • The Liberator

T40 (“Civil Rights”): states state law constitution tho government power united laws congress rights people con ohio tion act union question property

T55 (“Mexican-American War”): war mexico texas mexican army peace president territory troops united government military treaty annexation mexicans country polk taylor republic

T56 (“Native Americans”): indians indian tribes tribe chiefs frontier dian treaties tiger hawk antelope annuity fiscal lllack hyenas tigers dians avalanche savages

T59 (“Women’s Rights”): woman women rights husband wife sex sho marriage property married mrs female legal sphere equality estate social duties sexes

Andrew Goldstone, Model-Browser Interface

Objectives of EDA :

• Suggest hypotheses about the causes of observed phenomena

• Assess assumptions on which statistical inference will be based

• Support the selection of appropriate tools and techniques

• Provide a basis for further data collection through surveys or experiments

John Tukey,Exploratory Data Analysis(New York: Pearson, 1977)

Marti Hearst et al.WordSeer

Stuart Card et al., Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999)

“A humanistic approach [to visualization] means that the premises are rooted in the recognition of the interpretative nature of knowledge, that the display itself is conceived to embody qualitative expressions, and that the information is understood as graphically constituted” (129).

Johanna Drucker, Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production(Cambridge: Harvard, 2014)

T40 (“Civil Rights”): states state law constitution tho government power united laws congress rights people con ohio tion act union question property

T55 (“Mexican-American War”): war mexico texas mexican army peace president territory troops united government military treaty annexation mexicans country polk taylor republic

T56 (“Native Americans”): indians indian tribes tribe chiefs frontier dian treaties tiger hawk antelope annuity fiscal lllack hyenas tigers dians avalanche savages

T59 (“Women’s Rights”): woman women rights husband wife sex sho marriage property married mrs female legal sphere equality estate social duties sexes

Ji Soo Yi, Rachel Melton, John Stasko, and Julie A. Jacko“Dust & Magnet: multivariate information visualization using a magnet metaphor”

TOME: Interactive TOpic Model and MEtadata Visualization, Prototype I

TOME: Interactive TOpic Model and MEtadata Visualization, Prototype II

T56 (“Native Americans”): indians indian tribes tribe chiefs frontier dian treaties tiger hawk antelope annuity fiscal lllack hyenas tigers dians avalanche savages

Multidimensional scaling

T56 (“Native Americans”): indians indian tribes tribe chiefs frontier dian treaties tiger hawk antelope annuity fiscal lllack hyenas tigers dians avalanche savages

T55 (“Mexican-American War”): war mexico texas mexican army peace president territory troops united government military treaty annexation mexicans country polk taylor republic

TOME: Interactive TOpic Model and MEtadata Visualization, Prototype II

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