Quantifying and Visualizing digital data

The merge of data and literature is definitely a funky concept. I think that finding the data out of a large text although interesting can be at times very confusing. If you are not someone who is really intently looking for something in particular you are more taking in the information grasping at whatever reasoning you can to understand what is going on. These visualization tools help us to pick up things we wouldn't necessarily find if it were just close reading we were doing. For example, we can find common trends, ideas, word choice, and tone in a reader through these tools. It helps us to better understand an author and their "type" of writing. Thanks to data texts we are able to find traditional literary texts within sites that we can use to determine and examine through distant reading. It can help us to discover if the type of book they have written is comedy or drama, and it can tell us their consistency in word choice. It is helpful because a lot of the time this type of literature can be hard to understand in today's age, and confusing to read up close. So with the help of these tools, we are able to better grasp the storyline of these books. In my Imp of Perseverance, I have noticed words that link together like desire, man, action, thought, combativeness, and impulse. This gives me a strong sense of what the book is about, something to do with this desire to execute something. 



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  1. AnnaOctober 2, 2022 at 5:36 PM

    It definitely helps in this age to have the options of digital tools scanning wordier texts!

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  2. CamOctober 3, 2022 at 7:39 PM

    Hey! I absolutely agree with how you described the way in which visualizing data is able to present data you may not have been able to process by simply reading the text to ourselves. Reading the repetitive words found within your story makes me intrigued and interested in reading your story and then comparing them to my own!

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