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title: "A Short Guide to Historical Newspaper Data, Using R"
author: "Yann Ryan"
date: "2021-11-27T23:02:28Z"
tags: [Guide]
link: "https://bookdown.org/yann_ryan/r-for-newspaper-data/"
length_weight: "7.9%"
repo: "yannryan-irl/r-for-newspapers-data"
pinned: false
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This is a handbook to help new and existing users find, process and analyse historical newspaper data, using the programming language R, and its IDE R-Studio [...] In 2018 and 2019 I worked at the British Library as a Curator of Newspaper Data. It was an experimental position, conceived on the premise that the data generated by newspaper digitisation projects, in this case the Heritage Made Digital project, deserves its own curatorial role and set of practices. It was an fun time to work on such a project. While the large-scale analysis of newspaper data by historians is no longer in its ...
