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Collection 21: U.S. Top Newspapers, 2000-2018 (articles mentioning "humanities" or "science")

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Description

Collection 21 contains data representing all 15,692 articles from its set of sources in these years mentioning "humanities" but only a sampling of the 388,691 articles mentioning "science" or "sciences" from those same sources and years. It downsamples "science(s)" articles (while maintaining the proportions of articles from particular sources and years) to achieve a 50/50 balance of articles related to the humanities and sciences. The purpose is to allow media discourse on the humanities to be studied alongside that on the sciences and not be buried so far down in the statistical pile that it cannot easily be seen in detail. Collection 21 is thus not a representation of the relative weight of discussion of the humanities and sciences but instead an aid to studying the fine features and structures of each.

News sources in Collection 20 include: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Daily News (New York), Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, New York Times (and its blogs), Newsday (New York), Seattle Times, Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), Tampa Bay Times, USA Today, Washington Post.

Collection Metadata

  • Created by: Lindsay Thomas
  • Created on: July 18th 2019, 12:00:00 am
  • WE1S Collection Registry ID: 20190705_1645_us-humanities-sciences-top-newspapers
  • Data sources: LexisNexis (via LN Web Services Kit), ProQuest, and direct scraping from the Web.

Suggested Citation for Collection

WE1S Project, Collection 21: U.S. Top Newspapers, 2000-2018 (articles mentioning "humanities" or "science"), 2019, doi: DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4927745.

Notes

WE1S makes available only "non-consumptive use" word frequency, topic model, and other datasets along with their visualizations. Datasets cannot be used to access, read, or reconstruct the original texts.

(See WE1S Research Materials Overview for the relation between the project's "datasets" and "collections.")

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