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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 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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