There’s a new volume on digital archaeology coming out via the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future. https://thedigitalpress.org/mobilizing-the-past-for-a-digital-future/ Bill Caraher let me have an advance copy of it. Instead of reading it and writing a review, I thought I’d do a distant reading instead, as befits digital archaeology, and see what I found.

I did my analysis in R, and wrote my results up in Rmd (R-markdown, that is, my written ruminations + actionable code, all in one file). I first did an exploratory top-down topic model, and then a bottom-up word vector model.

Part One: Exploration http://rpubs.com/shawngraham/tm-mobpast ; Source Code https://gist.github.com/shawngraham/8e2df022df5781bab262820ce49912b4 – topic model of Mobilizing the Past

Part Two: Exploration http://rpubs.com/shawngraham/wv-mobpast ; Source Code https://gist.github.com/shawngraham/5609ac1455c7b4bd6f87f42c5d9d1f43– word vector model of Mobilizing the Past

Part Three: Exploration http://rpubs.com/shawngraham/mobpast-arch2-tm ; Source Code https://gist.github.com/shawngraham/a1e93bf6201fdc3d1e2bcc229e4fc4a5 – comparative topic model of Mobilizing the Past and Archaeology 2.0