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About Rob

Masters of Public History with a Specialization in the Digital Humanities student at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Avid mountain biker, programmer, horror enthusiast, existentialist, and small-time mechanic.

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Data Mining Project: The Grand Finale

Alas! The finished product of my data mining project, Mining the Landscape. Enjoy!

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Data Mining Project: The “Thoreauian” Metaphor Revealed

I have found a very interesting pattern/discovery that I might not have seen without data mining. I noticed that one of the words frequently used by Thoreau was like. It seemed odd at first and I thought that the “stop word” function (stops unnecessary words) had “missed” this word. With further research though, I found […]

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Data Mining Project: Graph of Words

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Data Mining Project: Word Size by Frequency

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Data Mining Project: Word Frequency

The following tables reveal the word frequency of “Roughing it in the Bush” and “An Excursion to Canada”. This tool is very important because it allows focus on the use of single words and their context.

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Data Mining History & the Canadian Landscape

I will be posting my progress for a data mining project in my Historian’s Craft course. The data will be posted as progression (so far it is preliminary data). I am data mining Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush (1852) and Henry David Thoreau’s An Excursion to Canada (1853). The purpose is to “not […]

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