This is the repo of my master's thesis at the Ecole nationale des chartes (Paris). The goal of this project is to experiment with digital methods to examine the presence of climate and weather-related information in a large corpus of digitized journals from the 19th century. Distributional methods are used to study the frequence of weather phenomena in the press and topic modeling is applied to categorize these mentions into a number of frequent contexts. The memoire details the role of the press as a source for climate history and offers ways to exploit it more efficiently.

The published master's thesis (in French) is here.

Bibliographic Information:

Krister Kruusmaa, Lecture distante du climat : Analyse numérique de l’information météorologique dans la presse du XIXe siècle / Distant Reading the Climate: Digital Analysis of Weather Information in 19th Century Press

2nd year M.A. thesis « Digital humanities », dir. Carmen Brando, Jawad Daheur

Université Paris, Sciences & Lettres 2022

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