{"id":498,"date":"2014-01-22T02:36:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/emorgan\/?p=498"},"modified":"2014-04-15T20:46:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T15:46:47","slug":"paper-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/2014\/01\/paper-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nToday I learned about Paper Machines, a very useful plug-in for Zotero allowing the reader to do visualizations against their collection of citations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToday Jeffrey Bain-Conkin pointed me towards a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/disc.library.emory.edu\/lincoln\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Logarithms<\/a> where sermons about Abraham Lincoln and slavery were analyzed. To do some of the analysis a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\" target=\"_blank\">Zotero<\/a> plug-in called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chrisjr\/papermachines\" target=\"_blank\">Paper Machines<\/a> was used, and it works pretty well:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>make sure Zotero&#8217;s full text indexing feature is turned on<\/li>\n<li>download and install Paper Machines<\/li>\n<li>select one of your Zotero collections to be analyzed<\/li>\n<li>wait<\/li>\n<li>select any one of a number of visualizations to create<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\nI am in the process of writing a <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tufts.edu\/liam\/\" target=\"_blank\">book on linked data for archivists<\/a>. I have am using Zotero to keep track the books citations, etc. I used Paper Machines to generate the following images:\n<\/p>\n<p style='text-align: center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/emorgan\/files\/2014\/01\/cloud.jpg\" alt=\"word cloud\" \/><br \/>a word cloud where the words are weighted by a TF-IDF score<\/p>\n<p style='text-align: center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/emorgan\/files\/2014\/01\/phrasenet.png\" alt=\"phrase net\" \/><br \/>a &#8220;phrase net&#8221; where the words are joined by the word &#8220;is&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style='text-align: center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/emorgan\/files\/2014\/01\/topic-model.png\" alt=\"topic model\" \/><br \/>a topic modeling map &#8212; illustration of automatically classified documents<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom these visualizations I learned:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>not much from the word cloud except what I already knew<\/li>\n<li>the word &#8220;data&#8221; is connected to many different actions<\/li>\n<li>I have few, if any, citations in my collection from the mid-2000&#8217;s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nI have often thought collections of metadata (citations, MARC records, the output from JSTOR&#8217;s Data For Research service) could easily be evaluated and visualized. Paper Machines does just that. I wish I had done it. (To some extent, I have, but the work is fledgling and called <a href=\"http:\/\/dh.crc.nd.edu\/sandbox\/jstor-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\">JSTOR Tool<\/a>.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn any event, if you use Zotero, then I suggest you give <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chrisjr\/papermachines\" target=\"_blank\">Paper Machines<\/a> a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned about Paper Machines, a very useful plug-in for Zotero allowing the reader to do visualizations against their collection of citations. Today Jeffrey Bain-Conkin pointed me towards a website called Lincoln Logarithms where sermons about Abraham Lincoln and slavery were analyzed. 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