Wednesday, 12 September, 1pm in Locke 611A
Dr Geoff Ford (UC Arts Digital Lab)
In previous sessions in the “Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series” we have talked about collecting textual data from the web, analysing texts using corpus methods and visualising data. In this session Geoff will draw some of these themes together and will build on them by talking about digital methods in practice in his PhD research (analysing economic rhetoric using corpus methods) and recent work in the UC Arts Digital Lab (analysing academic research using bibliometrics).
Geoff will focus on three questions:
- What are some of the issues with building and analysing large text corpora and how can we address these?
- What are the possibilities of “scraping” beyond texts on the web (e.g. radio and television)?
- How can we use bibliometric analysis tools to provide new insights into the academic literature we deal with? (or, How to make a pretty network diagram out of a literature search?)
For the last question, if you want to follow along download VosViewer.
Geoff is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the UC Arts Digital Lab. In his recent PhD research Geoff built a 57-million word corpus of New Zealand’s parliamentary debates and an audio corpus based on 1788 hours of talk radio broadcasts and analysed common features of public rhetoric related to the economy.