1. Abolitionist Newspapers and Maintaining 8-Year Project Momentum with Lauren Klein and Sandeep Soni

Diaries of Social Data Research

This episode features two guests: Lauren Klein, an associate professor of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University, and Sandeep Soni, a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Their Cultural Analytics paper, "Abolitionist Networks: Modeling Lan­guage Change in Nineteenth-Century Activist Newspapers", was published earlier this year in 2021, with an additional co-author, computational linguist Jacob Eisenstein.

Sandeep and Lauren discuss the challenges involved in this project---a project that began with a conversation between Lauren and Jacob over dim sum---from gathering and cleaning noisy data to maintaining research momentum over the project’s eight year lifespan.

Paper link: https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.18841