The best list online is available at Trove here. It not only lists all newspaper mastheads ever published in Australia but also shows which ones have been digitised by the Trove team, and what years. What’s not so useful about this list is that it doesn’t show the total number […]
Category: Python
Automated Popular English Fiction Genre Classification System
I’m pleased to announce I’ve had some success with ChatGPT classifying texts into fiction genres. I used the ChatGPT API and a bespoke Python script. It was a bit expensive but as this was crucial to my entire PhD, worth it. If you’ve come straight to this post without knowing […]
Learning Digital Humanities tools such as Python to analyse 19th-20th century newspaper fiction
To Be Continued is a database of newspaper fiction from Australian newspapers from the 19th century until the 1950s that I am using as an integral part to my PhD thesis. The database, as of February 2024, was made up of over 580,000 pieces of text in the form of […]
