Newspaper corpus & metadata
Read about how the print media corpus was built, cleaned, and categorised, including eco-criticism themes, locations, and key actors.
Media Mining Memory – Nigeria
A layered digital archive tracking how Nigerian newspapers, state reports, and community narratives have represented mining accidents, labour, environment, and extraction from 1935 to 2025.
1935–2025 print media corpus
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NLTK, timelines & topic models
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Place-based exhibits from Enugu
This site is part of a larger research project on abandoned mines, environmental memory, and community contestation in Eastern Nigeria. It is openly shared for classroom use, collaborative annotation, and further research.
Data & Maps
Corpus, metadata, and cartographic views
Start here if you want to understand the underlying dataset and how it has been structured for mapping and analysis.
Interactive mining map
Navigate a Leaflet/Folium-based map linking articles to Nigerian localities, mine sites, states, and transnational references.
Timelines & Topics
When do mining issues appear, and how?
These views foreground tempo and vocabulary: which decades are noisy, which are quiet, and what kinds of mining stories dominate public discussion.
Interactive timelines
Explore clustered decade views and an interactive timeline that lets you filter by theme, location, and newspaper.
Topic visualisations
Visualise topic clusters – from accidents and compensation, to child labour, environmental pollution, and energy nationalism.
Data & text mining
This section foregrounds the NLTK-based analysis notebooks that shaped the visualisations: tokenisation, collocations, TF–IDF, and experiments with topic modelling.
NLTK analysis walkthrough
A narrative guide to the Python notebooks used for cleaning, tokenising, and extracting patterns from the mining corpus – designed so you can adapt them for your own projects.
From keywords to eco-criticism
See how key terms such as “pollution”, “child labour”, “disaster”, “compensation”, and “community” were traced across newspapers from the 1930s to the 2010s.
Classroom & Community
Teaching with Media Mining Memory
These tools translate the dataset into interactive activities for undergraduate classrooms, community workshops, and reading groups.
Interactive word cloud
An in-class exercise where students explore a dynamic word cloud generated from the mining corpus and connect clusters of terms to specific events and regions.
Discussion forum prototype
A simple discussion space designed for students and community members to post reflections on mining, memory, and environmental justice after exploring the site.
Exhibits & Context
From national media to Enugu’s mining afterlives
Move from the aggregated national dataset into site-specific storytelling, and learn more about the research project behind this repository.
(Un)Known Memories exhibit
An Enugu-focused digital exhibit that weaves together maps, photographs, hydrological plans, and media fragments to ask what coal memory remembers – and what it forgets.
About the project & visualisations
Read about the larger dissertation project, data ethics, and design decisions that shaped this site, including links to CLAIRE and Communities & Mining in Nigeria.