tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929346053949579231.post2784681897331091385..comments2024-03-23T00:59:24.057-04:00Comments on Sapping Attention: Century of -isms, take oneBenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04856020368342677253noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929346053949579231.post-70780833485016079772010-12-06T10:10:00.513-05:002010-12-06T10:10:00.513-05:00Scott,
Good catch, I misspoke on the labels--it&#...Scott,<br /><br />Good catch, I misspoke on the labels--it's weighted by the percentage of books in the year of peak. So these do represent some change.<br /><br />I couldn't say for sure, but it looks to me like the religious words that peak later are often ones with more historical import—puritanism, calvinism? I've been meaning to take the clustering tree of these words and try color-coding them from that, which might shed light on whether different groups of religious terms peak at different times. (Though there's a little chicken-egg problem here--they'll be classed as different groups in part _because_ they peak at different times).<br /><br />There may be a little of error pushing things towards the back since my corpus isn't perfectly curated--I still have to cull out a bunch of improperly maintained foreigh-language books, for instance, and those might be clustered towards the beginning. There are various other problems. But I think all that clustering at the end is realBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04856020368342677253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929346053949579231.post-34954829876662558792010-12-06T09:43:33.815-05:002010-12-06T09:43:33.815-05:00Ben, just now coming onto your site, great work--I...Ben, just now coming onto your site, great work--I'm struck by the persistence of religious denominations as the featured "isms" into the end of the 19C. They're placed by the peak and the font size is by the number of hits at peak, you mention--is this in absolute terms, or is it weighted by number of publications per year? So this makes the graph heavy in the 20thC, no?Scott (csnesbit)http://dsl.richmond.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929346053949579231.post-8109264974197021882010-12-04T12:06:50.754-05:002010-12-04T12:06:50.754-05:00And of course: capitalism vs. capitalistAnd of course: capitalism vs. capitalistDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217832960135325575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929346053949579231.post-25842872956424544322010-11-15T14:01:57.943-05:002010-11-15T14:01:57.943-05:00Can we select a few to track though? I'd be in...Can we select a few to track though? I'd be interested in disparities between "sociology" and "sociologist," for example, as well as "Darwinism," "Darwinist," and "Darwinian"...Hanknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929346053949579231.post-13966689651216409242010-11-15T10:02:31.068-05:002010-11-15T10:02:31.068-05:00The increased density of 'isms' in the tee...The increased density of 'isms' in the teens shows that they did increase over time.<br /><br />It would be pretty easy to add the 'ists,' although there would be false positives and negatives: there's no such thing as a utilitarianist, and an organist is not a follower of organized organism.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04856020368342677253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929346053949579231.post-71967485340887472682010-11-15T00:54:51.138-05:002010-11-15T00:54:51.138-05:00So does this tell us that the number of "-ism...So does this tell us that the number of "-isms" rises steadily over the century, or does it not tell us that? How do these relate to their associated "-ists," or is that too hard to figure out?Hanknoreply@blogger.com