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Digital Humanties: Corpora & Datasets
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What are corpora and datasets?
A corpus and a dataset are similar in that they are both groups of information. A corpus is a collection of written texts, while a dataset can be collection of any kind of data. Corpora and datasets can be used by students to find new discoveries from the data included.
Corpora and Datasets
- Perseus Digital Librarycollection of Ancient Greek texts.
- Corpus of Contemporary American Englishfree online corpus with 1 billion words of modern English.
- Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American Englishcorpus of over 249,000 words from audio files and transcriptions.
- Google DatasetsThis is a search engine that helps you locate of datasets from various sources and on
specific topics. - Data.govThe U.S. government's open data portal provides access to large collection of datasets on topics
ranging from demographics and health to transportation and the environment. - StatistaInsights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries (from website).