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It'd probably be better if it used a better measure than raw term frequency in the articles. For example, most of Europe is "War". If it used something like inv
by arnsholt 14y ago
It'd probably be better if it used a better measure than raw term frequency in the articles. For example, most of Europe is "War". If it used something like inverse document frequency (tf-idf) to rank the terms, it might get more distinct words for each country.
- adaml_623 14y agoThat sounds like a great idea. I hope the original poster picks up on your idea. Although that may still leave some of the offensive terms listed elsewhere in the comments (Kuwait <- Iraq, Ethiopia <- Eritrea)
- tinco 14y agoThat might be so if your goal is to hilight what sets the countries apart. The author of the map chose for 'history of __' as the topic. And when doing that with countries it is not surprising to find that countries are defined by war, nobility, imperialism and rivalry. We like to think countries are formed because of their people, and their culture, but in reality countries are formed because of their resources, defendability and their interested parties. If there is one thing that defines borders in europe, it is war, and this map shows that quite laconically :)
- keithpeter 14y agoI was hoping for more words when you zoomed, like a hierarchical wordle, but I realise that that was not the purpose of the map. Interesting way to get students thinking about history.
- chimeracoder 14y agoYeah, I'd be interested in doing an associative version of this (sort of like what we did for this[1]), though my mapping skills are not quite up to the author's/ [1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/ http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-peopl...