macroanalysis

Large-scale data study

Macroanalysis is the study of large-scale patterns, trends, or systems rather than individual cases or details.

The term appears in literary studies for computational analysis of thousands of texts at once, and in economics for examining whole economies rather than individual markets.

It contrasts with microanalysis: Macroanalysis reveals patterns invisible when reading one book at a time.

scope

overview

Broad general summary

aggregate · comprehensive · broad · systemic · global · interconnection · framework · context · landscape · mapping

patterns

trends

Prevailing directions of change

  • motifRecurring thematic element
  • structureArrangement of interconnected parts
  • evolutionSpecies changing over generations

distribution · frequency · stylistic · thematic · historical · cultural · emergence · decline · diffusion · trajectory

bigdata

analytics

Systematic examination of datasets

corpus · dataset · visualization · clustering · aggregation

methodology

large-scale

Of great size

systematic · aggregate · data-driven · cross-sectional · longitudinal · comparative · holistic · top-down · bird's-eye

literary

canon

Accepted authoritative works

style · narrative · bibliography · archive · digitization · nineteenth-century · novel · poetry · publishing · circulation

Opposites
scale of analysis

macroanalysismicroanalysis

Study of minute samples

close reading · case study · textual analysis

methodological approach

macroanalysisclose reading

Detailed textual analysis

slow reading · exegesis

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