Progressing through the Information Age, Big Data has come to the attention of many in the humanities, at times even eclipsing the importance of other forms of data (Cheryl Ball, Tarez Samra Graban, and Michelle Sidler have written about … Read more... “Visualizing Data through Infographics”
Month: November 2013
This blog post is a small excerpt from a chapter co-authored by Ball, Tarez Samra Graban, and Michelle Sidler on open data and rhetoric.io and submitted to Networked Humanities (eds. McNely & Rice).
While authors of the other posts in … Read more... “From Big Data to Boutique Data”
A big part of my research is the collection and use of audio-visual (AV) qualitative data. I use video cameras and microphones to gather information about participants and their experiences, and I use video editing software to compose with this … Read more... “Collecting Audio-Visual Data, Composing Audio-Visual Arguments”
Thanks to freeware toolkits like AntConc, and searchable databases like the Corpus of Contemporary American English, or COCA, it is easier than ever to analyze electronically-available texts for linguistic patterns. This practice is called corpus linguistic analysis, … Read more... “Corpus linguistic analysis of written language: How to use “I” and more”