Mining 50 Years of ACIS National Meeting Programs
Nicholas Wolf New York University
https://slides.com/nmarw49/acis-2017
1. Building
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1. Building
Apply Light Markup
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1. Building
Python for Extracting Structured Information
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Final Tabular Form for Last Cleaning and Geocoding
2. Support
Burns Library Home of ACIS Archive
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(Thanks to Christian Dupont of BL)
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Idaho State University
Home of Justin Stover
(and his intern, Dalton Wray)
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UW-Milwaukee Home of José Lanters
(and her deep filing cabinets)
3. Scope
1963 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana => MISSING 1964 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign => MISSING 1965 New York University => MISSING 1966 University of Kansas => MISSING 1967 - 1984, 1986-1987: Complete 1985 Pacific Lutheran University/University of Puget Sound => MISSING
1988 University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota => MISSING
1989 - 1992, 1996, 1998: Complete
1993 Villanova University => MISSING
1994 Creighton University => MISSING
1995 Queen’s University Belfast => MISSING
1997 ACIS (no university host), Albany, New York => MISSING
1999 VA Tech => MISSING
2000 University of Limerick => MISSING
2001 - 2016: Complete
4. Contents: Cover Art
Southern Illinois Carbondale
1970
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James Madison University
1979
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U Pitt/Carnegie Mellon
1981
4. Contents: Cover Art
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Chicago
2013
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Ohio Dominican College
1983
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Marquette University
2002
4. Contents: Scribal Marginalia
NUI Galway
1992
Stonehill College, MA
1975
UW Madison
1991
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5. Analysis: Conferences
~ 7865 participatory "events" ~ 6033 non-chair/comment participatory "events" ~ 1864 panels ~ 143 plenary/keynote participants
5. Analysis: Conferences
Growth in Participation, 1967-2016
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5. Analysis: Conferences
Growth in Participation, 1967-2016
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UCD 1987
NUI Galway(1) 1992
Notre Dame(1) 2005
New Orleans 2012
Notre Dame(2) 2016
5. Analysis: Conferences
Year | Conference | Participatory Events |
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2016 | Notre Dame | 632 |
2012 | New Orleans | 603 |
2014 | UCD | 530 |
2013 | Chicago | 464 |
2011 | UW Madison | 399 |
2005 | Notre Dame | 396 |
2007 | CUNY Graduate Center | 373 |
2015 | Ft. Lauderdale |
371 |
2009 | NUI Galway |
339 |
2006 | University of MO STL | 302 |
1992 | NUI Galway |
301 |
Conferences > 300 (only 1 pre-2005)
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Most Common Panel Title Words
Word | Frequency |
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"literature" | 109 |
"contemporary" | 103 |
"history" | 89 |
"america" | 78 |
"poetry" | 71 |
"politics" | 62 |
"fiction" | 58 |
"new" | 57 |
"writing" | 53 |
"northern" | 51 |
"culture" | 49 |
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Panel Title Words (as a % of panels) Over Time
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5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Panel Title Words (as a % of panels) Over Time
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5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Top Author Frequencies
Word | Frequency |
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"joyce" or "joyce's" |
52 |
"yeats" |
45 |
"heaney" | 19 |
"beckett" | 12 |
"synge" |
10 |
"muldoon" |
6 |
"wilde" |
6 |
"friel" |
6 |
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Counts
Top History Term Frequencies
Word | Frequency |
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"19th" or "nineteenth" | 42 |
"20th" or "twentieth" | 35 |
"diaspora" | 27 |
"nationalism" | 25 |
"ulster" | 16 |
"religion" | 14 |
"transnational" | 14 (doesn't exist until 2006) |
"famine" | 13 |
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Co-Occurrences
Word | Co-Occurrence | Frequency |
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"contemporary" | "fiction" | 20 |
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"poetry" | 18 |
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"literature" | 10 |
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"writing" | 9 |
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"drama" | 8 |
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"narratives" | 5 |
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"gender" | 5 |
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"politics" | 4 |
' ' | "social" | 4 |
' ' | "modern" | 4 |
5. Analysis: Panel Title Word Co-Occurrences
Word | Co-Occurrence | Frequency |
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"women" | "writers" | 11 |
"poetry" | "heaney" | 9 |
"poetry" |
"contemporary" |
18 |
"historicizing" |
"america" |
9 |
"yeats" |
"joyce" |
6 |
"language" |
"literature" |
9 |
Select High-Frequency Co-Occurring Terms
(see https://bit.ly/2okFHP2 for full list)
5. Analysis: Participants (link)
5. Analysis: Participants (link)
6. Next Steps
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Disambiguate participant names using VIAF authority (automated) and then correct stragglers by hand
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Complete process of extracting paper titles
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Obtain last missing programs (help!)
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Conduct full accuracy review
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Provide searchable data (SQL + index), featured content (WordPress), and interactive visualizations (plot.ly & leaflet Javascript) on acisweb.org
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