history-playground-python

Python interface for the History Playground

Getting started

1. Create an account at http://playground.enm.bris.ac.uk
2. Download the files to your directory of choice
3. Edit example.py and enter your account details
4. Run python example.py to see an simple example of getting data from the playground and plotting it.

Citing the playground

If you use the history playground in any publications, please cite:

Lansdall-Welfare, Thomas and Cristianini, Nello. "History Playground: A Tool for Discovering Temporal Trends in Massive Textual Corpora." arXiv:1806.01185 (2018)

To cite the British Newspaper Archive data, please cite:

Lansdall-Welfare, Thomas, et al. "Content analysis of 150 years of British periodicals." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017): 201606380.