Looking for the word Space in our magazines, led me to a few revelations. At first, I haphazardly started looking through all of them, but after it crashed my chrome window I changed my mind. Before chrome went down though, I did get to see that space was essentially irrelevant to most of these magazines. In fact, the only interesting numbers or graphs were spawned from the Egoist and the poetry selections. Even then, it wasn't what I was looking for. I was hoping for some shreds of sci-fi, maybe some speculation about spaceflight. Alas, this tool--and others like it, seem to be best for confirming or denying the existence of what you are looking for in a text. While I was looking for spaceflight, I found more about philosophical interpretations of space and time- as in the egoist. Whereas with most of the others there was little coherent use of the word space. The context aspect of voyant made this all too easy to determine. I feel like DH tools would allow one to look for elements or themes in a work without actually having to read about it. All you'd have to know is what keywords to use.
Space, empty space.
Submitted by Vincent Dale on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 13:54
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Megan Grier
Mon, 11/10/2014 - 15:30
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I really like your point
I really like your point about how these tools are "best for confirming or denying the existence of what you are looking for in a text." I think I was so overwhelmed at first with how 'techy' everything looked, that I was expecting it to be able to do a alot more than it could, and to be more useful than it actually was.