1. Introducing Voyant & Google’s Ngram Viewer Spencer D. C. Keralis Postdoctoral Fellow in Academic Libraries, Council on Library & Information Resources & UNT Libraries

2. Spencer D. C. Keralis Postdoctoral Fellow in Academic Libraries, Council on Library & Information Resources & UNT Libraries @hauntologist spencerkeralis.com

3. Distant Reading Franco Moretti “Conjectures on World Literature,” New Left Review (I, Jan-Feb 2000). Graphs, Maps, Trees. (London, New York: Verso, 2005) Stanford Literary Lab. http://litlab.stanford.edu/

4. Wordle Spencer D. C. Keralis. “Feeling Animal: Pet-Making & Mastery in The Slave’s Friend.” American Periodicals (Volume 22, Number 2, 2012).

5. Google’s n-Gram Viewer  a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of  Used to reveal trends in word use across a broad corpus, defined by the user (and Google books, of course), and over specified durée  http://books.google.com/ngrams

7. Voyant  “a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.”  Analytic tools to examine a user-specified corpus.  http://voyant-tools.org/

8.  Text analysis of research institution policies governing the retention and sharing of research data.  Text analysis of funding agency guidance to applicants  datamanagement.unt.edu http://voyeurtools.org/?corpus=1339433219 420.4969

9. Limitations  Visualizations of “text data” are information products, not knowledge products.  Proximity proves nothing without context.  Unable to read metaphor, puns, figures of speech, etc.  Close reading, and contextual understanding still required for proper analysis.