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Digital histories workshop 5

Discover the power of visualizations to analyze digital histories, focusing on Old Bailey Online crime data. Learn about Google Books Ngram Viewer and pitfalls when counting words. Explore different types of visualizations and how to interpret them effectively.

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Digital histories workshop 5

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  1. Digital histories workshop 5 visualisations

  2. Visualising text: Old Bailey Online: Offences by crime category, 1674-1913, excluding ‘Theft’ and ‘Violent Theft’: 66,469 charges

  3. Google books ngram viewer • http://searchengineland.com/when-ocr-goes-bad-googles-ngram-viewer-the-f-word-59181 • Counting Words Often Goes Wrong • Does Google Books get the dates of some books wrong? • Is the distribution adjusted? IE, if you have more books in a particular year, can that cause some terms to spike? • Are the books “even” in subject matter? IE, do you have more scientific works scanned in one year than maybe another year? • Scanning Isn’t Perfect

  4. There are several questions you want to ask yourself about any visualisation: • Can you interpret it? • What do the makers aim to do? • What sources does it use? • Does it actually add any information? • Can you manipulate it? • Is it visually appealing?

  5. Types of visualisation: tabular

  6. Types of visualisation: word cloud of tags

  7. Types of visualisation: connections

  8. Types of visualisation: mapping by density

  9. Types of visualisation – ‘pinning’ photographs

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