history-playground-matlab

MATLAB interface for the History Playground

Getting started

1. Create an account at http://playground.enm.bris.ac.uk
2. Download the files and add them to your path in Matlab (see: https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/addpath.html for help)
3. Call plygrd and follow the prompts

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.