Combining statistics and texts using GIS: nineteenth century health reports

Catherine Porter; Paul Atkinson; Ian Norman Gregory

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1491375

Combining statistics and texts using GIS: nineteenth century health reports

Catherine Porter, Paul Atkinson, Ian Norman Gregory

School of Natural and Built Environment

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Abstract

This paper combines Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to explore how statistics and textual information may be compared. Combined with known mortality figures, for the first time, this research provides a spatial picture of the relationship between the Registrar-General’s discussion of disease and deaths in England and Wales during the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. A variety of techniques are employed to provide a new view on whether government published texts were directly related to changing mortality patterns during this time.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	GISRUK 2015 Conference Proceedings
Pages	492-499
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1491375
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	GISRUK 2015 - University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Duration: 15 Apr 2015 → 17 Apr 2015 https://figshare.com/articles/GIS_Research_UK_GISRUK_2015_Proceedings/1491375

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Conference	GISRUK 2015
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Leeds
Period	15/04/2015 → 17/04/2015
Internet address	https://figshare.com/articles/GIS_Research_UK_GISRUK_2015_Proceedings/1491375

Keywords

gis
Corpora
corpus linguistics
nineteenth century
Digital Humanities
Spatial humanities

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