Latinx and color

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The term I analyzed was Latinx, a gender-neutral neologism from the 21st century to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. 338 records with this term in the title were found in the Web of Knowledge. With this dataset, I created a couple of Networks. The first one […]

Latinx and color

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The term I analyzed was Latinx, a gender-neutral neologism from the 21st century to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. 338 records with this term in the title were found in the Web of Knowledge. With this dataset, I created a couple of Networks. The first one […]

Co-Authorship and Dental Anthropology

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When I first approached this problem, I wanted to look at the field of Dental Anthropology, a sub-specialization of the many iterations of biological anthropology. I decided to look first at the common terms used in the abstracts and titles of the papers in dental anthropology to see if I could find any patterns. Looking […]

Urban agricultural history

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The first network I used was “Urban agricultural history.” This network brought back 529 documents. Of the 17,076 terms found, 308 occurred over 10 times. The terms that were deemed most relevant were quite surprising to me. Species richness, metal, species composition, lead, and stream were all stratified as most relevant with a score in […]

Urban agricultural history

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The first network I used was “Urban agricultural history.” This network brought back 529 documents. Of the 17,076 terms found, 308 occurred over 10 times. The terms that were deemed most relevant were quite surprising to me. Species richness, metal, species composition, lead, and stream were all stratified as most relevant with a score in […]

Word Embeddings

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I chose to look at the topic of word embeddings, as it was and still is a popular method for semantic analysis of texts. As output, word embeddings return words in a corpus that are used in similar/interchangeable contexts. Last time, I was looking at documents within the field of Slavic languages & literatures; however, […]