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6 Text, Documents, and DNA

Section 6.2

The copies of text files below from Project Gutenberg have had their prefaces/licenses removed for the purpose of text analysis. The quotes in the files have also been “straightened” for better compatibility.

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville (original)

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (original)

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (original)

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (original)

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau (original)

Section 6.6

• Michelle Obama’s convention speech (2008)

• Melania Trump’s convention speech (2016)

Exercises

• 6.3.14 dictionary file

Online Sections

• 6.7 Time Complexity

• 6.8 Computational Genomics

  • Python molurus bivittatus FASTA file (snippet)

Projects

• Project 6.1: Polarized politics

  • Archived roll call votes:
    1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
    2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
    2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014
    2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019

• Project 6.2: Finding genes

  • Skeleton program

  • E. coli DNA files: 500 bp | 1,000 bp | 5,000 bp | 10,000 bp

Further discovery

• Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations

• The Programming Historian

• Voyant text analysis tools

• Tokenization in the Python interpreter

• Unicode

• Shakespeare concordance

• The DNA Data Deluge

• Computational genomics news