Sapping Attention

Before end-of-semester madness, I was looking at how shifts in vocabulary usage occur. In many cases, I found, vocabulary change doesn't...

Here's an animation of the PCA numbers I've been exploring this last week . There's quite a bit of data built in here, and j...

I wanted to see how well the vector space model of documents I've been using for PCA works at classifying individual books. [Note at the...

I used principal components analysis at the end of my last post to create a two-dimensional plot of genre based on similarities in word us...

One of the most important services a computer can provide for us is a different way of reading. It's fast, bad at grammar, good at count...

Back to my own stuff. Before the Ngrams stuff came up, I was working on ways of finding books that share similar vocabularies. I said at the...

Let me get ahead of myself a little. For reasons related to my metadata, I had my computer assemble some data on the frequencies of the mo...