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Provenance patterns: visualising unreliability words in red

In this post, we look at another way of automating the analysis of hundreds of artworks at a time with reusable code. 

"Unreliability" words have been automatically formatted in red. 

The count refers to the number of artworks containing "unreliability" words for the same artist in the dataset.

Selected paintings with "unreliability" words such as "probably", "possibly", "presumably" and "likely".

The analysis and table were produced by Python code run in a Jupyter Notebook on a Mac.

The Notebook will be shared after a few more tests.