Intimate narratives of everyday experience of 19th and 20th century Londoners through the smellscape.

The aim of the project is to use the dataset as a tool to explore and interpret the lives and health of the 19th and 20th century Londoners. During the second phase how smells are linked to health and the socio-economic identity of London streets will be investigated.

Phase 1 (2016):

• The project is to data mine over 5500 Medical Officer of Health (MOH) reports from the Greater London area spanning from 1848 to 1972.
• A dataset of smell-related words is created.
• The smells in the dataset is further categorised.
• A simple map of smell-related words is created using CARTO.

Phase 2 (2017):

•  An interactive Leaflet map showing different smell categories through time is created.
• Sentiment analysis with R
• A report to be produced.

Phase 3 (2017-18)

• Further Natural Language Processing: extracting implied smells.
• The data collected to be mapped onto the 19th and 20th century London Streets.

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