Building a Shakespeare character network
Ten years ago I wrote a small Shiny app that drew a network of Macbeth’s characters. I showed it to colleagues working on Shakespeare, they liked it, I posted it, and then I left...
Ten years ago I wrote a small Shiny app that drew a network of Macbeth’s characters. I showed it to colleagues working on Shakespeare, they liked it, I posted it, and then I left...
If you work with large annotated corpora, you will know the feeling. You have a research question. You know roughly what you are looking for: a construction, a collocation, a specific part-of-speech sequence. You...
As corpus linguists, we often grapple with the question of how to empower students who may not have extensive coding skills to design tools that fit their research needs. With this in mind, I developed a modest yet very helpful Shiny app that simplifies running [latex]\chi^2[/latex] and Fisher’s exact tests for independence while offering access to the underlying code. This blog post explores how the app was built, its assets and limitations, and reflects on pedagogical goals.