Distant Reader Toolbox

A command-line tool for creating and interacting with Distant Reader study carrels

• Definitions
  • Distant Reader
  • Study carrels
  • Reader Toolbox
  • More information
• Installation
• Quick start
• Exercise: Introduction
  • Your first command
  • List words
  • Browse the public library
  • Build your library
  • List words, revisited
  • Search
  • List sentence-like phrases
  • Summary
• Commands
  • about
  • adr
  • bib
  • browse
  • build
  • catalog
  • cluster
  • collocations
  • concordance
  • documentation
  • download
  • edit
  • ent
  • get
  • grammars
  • info
  • ngrams
  • notebooks
  • play
  • pos
  • read
  • readability
  • search
  • semantics
  • set
  • sizes
  • sql
  • summarize
  • tm
  • url
  • web
  • wrd
• Exercise: Building carrels
  • From sample data
  • From your data
  • With secret sauce
  • Helper applications
  • Summary
• Structure of a carrel
  • adr
  • bib
  • cache
  • ent
  • etc
  • figures
  • pos
  • provenance.tsv
  • txt
  • urls
  • wrd
• GUI applications
• Quips
  • Quip #1
  • Quip #2
  • Quip #3
  • Quip #4
  • Quip #5
  • Quip #6
• Exercise: Word Clouds
  • With the Toolbox
  • With Wordle
  • Summary
• Exercise: Searching
  • Concordancing
  • Advanced concordancing
  • Full text searching
  • SQL
• Exercise: Topic modeling
  • With the Toolbox
  • With Topic Modeling Tool
• Exercise: Network graphs
  • Collocations
  • Gephi
  • Bigrams
  • Documents and grammars
  • Documents and keywords
• Exercise: Normalizing
  • Keywords
  • Named entities
• Python Notebooks
• Use cases
  • analyzing Web Of Science
  • reading collections from the HathiTrust
  • analyzing open access articles
  • creating a carrel from email messages
  • reading an entire blog
  • Reading DHQ
• Supporting software
• About the author