Hacking Moby-Dick, April–June 2018

Seminar Resources

I. On the Web

* ‘Hacking Moby-Dick’ GitHub repository (https://github.com/cmohge1/hacking-moby-dick): home to the budding blog and the repository for shared files.

E.g. to download the Moby-Dick cleaned-up txt file for analysis, go to: https://github.com/cmohge1/hacking-moby-dick/blob/master/moby-dick.txt

* Melville Electronic Library (https://mel.hofstra.edu/): A collection of digital resources on Melville’s life and work.

To access the electronic text of Moby-Dick:

http://mel-juxta-editions.herokuapp.com/documents/293

To access the American versus British collation: https://mel.hofstra.edu/juxta/moby-dick/0

* Melville’s Marginalia Online (http://melvillesmarginalia.org/): Melville’s virtual library, with a search catalog of all works Melville is known to have read or consulted.

* Voyant Tools (https://voyant-tools.org/): A web-based data-mining tool.

To access the uploaded Moby-Dick visualisation: https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=74246b1121291d00837d6841b78fb0b1&panels=cirrus,termsberry,trends,summary,contexts

* Historical Thesaurus of English (http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/): Assigns categories of meaning to dictionary words.

II. Downloadable (optional)

* AntConc (http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/): A program for text mining and analysis that can create concordances of texts.

* RStudio (https://www.rstudio.com/): A free, open source integrated development environment (IDE) that runs the R programming language (which is very useful for visualisation and text analysis).