r makes it easier to analyze the large volumes of text today’s academic is expected to consume.</p>
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<h2>Study carrels<a class="headerlink" href="#study-carrels" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Given an almost arbitrary amount of text as input, the Distant Reader creates a corpus from the text, transforms it into plain text, does text mining and natural language processing against it, saves the results in a myriad of structured data files, distills 