Hacking at the Open Syllabus Project: Collocations by Subject

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I was invited to hack around on the Open Syllabus project this past Saturday, which I was really excited to do. They’ve scraped the web and come up with around 1.5 million syllabi, and only just released their API to researchers this weekend. I wanted to run some computational analyses on these syllabi, to attempt questions like: What were the most frequently assigned texts in freshman composition…

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