Data Mining

           Data mining is the practice of examining large database in order to generate new information. Data mining can be conducted with many different programs and resources. Data mining can be used to analyze different works of literature. Data mining has become easier and easier to do with developing programs. Voyant is a tool that allows its user to plug in any form of text and will then "mine" information. It creates numerous pieces of information that can be seen below

  This is one of our group blog posts about video, are most used words were game, computer, and played. We then plugged those top words into Googles Ngram Viewer. As you can see the word "computer" spiked rapidly from the 1950's to 1990. We found it interesting that the word "computer" started to decrease slightly towards the early part of the 2000's. Most would assume that the word "computer" would continue to climb into the age of technology. However, Ngram shows that the word has hit a plateau.

Here is another blog post from our blog, Make Digital Humanities Great Again.


   
   
When looking at the words literature and reader, there is some what of a correlation.  In the 1800’s the word reader had a positive correlation while the word literature had a negative correlation. Around 1880, the two words were used just about the same. The two different lines come together. After the 1880’s, the two words continued on their track. “Reader” continues to be used less and less while the word “literature” continued to be used more and more. The world electronic was not noticeably used until the late 1920's and early 1930's.