Comments on: Data Analysis Group Post http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/data-analysis-group-post/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=data-analysis-group-post English 738T, Spring 2015 Sat, 12 Nov 2016 04:10:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Allison Wyss http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/data-analysis-group-post/#comment-432 Allison Wyss Sat, 05 May 2012 01:21:10 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=872#comment-432 I'm going to give a very unsatisfying answer to your last question: not enough data to tell. We selected a few pretty pictures for all of our various blog posts. However, it takes dozens of runs (at least) to come up with any sensible ideas about patterns of topics. We certainly saw many occurrences of the "love" topic and many occurrences of several different topics related to "horror." Digging into that relationship would be interesting, but as far as i know, no one in our group took the analysis in that particular direction. I did find some interesting correlations between "body parts" and "horror," which I wrote about in an earlier post, but it took me maybe 25 Woodchipper runs of 8 texts at a time to find the pattern. I’m going to give a very unsatisfying answer to your last question: not enough data to tell. We selected a few pretty pictures for all of our various blog posts. However, it takes dozens of runs (at least) to come up with any sensible ideas about patterns of topics. We certainly saw many occurrences of the “love” topic and many occurrences of several different topics related to “horror.” Digging into that relationship would be interesting, but as far as i know, no one in our group took the analysis in that particular direction. I did find some interesting correlations between “body parts” and “horror,” which I wrote about in an earlier post, but it took me maybe 25 Woodchipper runs of 8 texts at a time to find the pattern.

]]> By: Jennifer Ausden http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/data-analysis-group-post/#comment-431 Jennifer Ausden Fri, 04 May 2012 21:00:11 +0000 http://mith.umd.edu/eng738T/?p=872#comment-431 Thanks for sharing, data analysis guys! It sounds like your trials, in many ways, became a thought-provoking exercise in taxonomy and genre. Just curious, would you recall any topics that "almost" made the list? And, from a process perspective, how did you go about brainstorming and finalizing the "final four": chronology, genre deviations, geography/setting, and gender? One last question -- I'm curious if [the top left graph in the second image, above] indicates a special relationship between horror and romance in the Gothic, but I'm having some trouble interpreting the axes... Thanks for sharing, data analysis guys! It sounds like your trials, in many ways, became a thought-provoking exercise in taxonomy and genre.

Just curious, would you recall any topics that “almost” made the list? And, from a process perspective, how did you go about brainstorming and finalizing the “final four”: chronology, genre deviations, geography/setting, and gender?

One last question — I’m curious if [the top left graph in the second image, above] indicates a special relationship between horror and romance in the Gothic, but I’m having some trouble interpreting the axes…

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