Category: Data & Visualization
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Practicum: Network Analysis
I recently used Cytoscape – an open source platform for network analysis – to visualize the distribution of race and ethnicity among the deceased that law enforcement agencies killed in 2015 and 2016. I wanted to see which law enforcement agencies targeted which demographics of victims. I plan to use the information to focus activist […]
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Working as a teammate
We are supposed to perform a group project to analyze Dartmouth commencement speakers websites.First of all, every member of team should analyze the tasks individually using some tools like Voyant and then extracts most frequently words, and then analyze the website. After, all team members should bring all of the analysis together. I have two tasks (“Dartmouth […]
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Twitter Project Journey
Our project is trying to determine attitudes towards black Twitter, and things that people associate with black Twitter. We will collect tweets with key words and hashtags associated with black Twitter and organize the tweets by location, sentiment, and other categories. Our project is trying to determine attitudes towards black Twitter, and things that people associate […]
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Network as a Graph
Life and World are based on the Networks. All of the creatures and objects are connected together directly or indirectly. Relationship between us is kind of network. To better undrestading and modeling the network, scientists and mathematicians have defined network in high level mathematical term. Graph helps us to better and more accurate understanding of the relationships […]
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Voyant Voyage
The two texts I submitted for my corpus were the Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech, and Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech (written by a Dartmouth ’79). I chose these because they are speeches familiar to me. They are both addressing the issue of freedoms, either physical or social. A […]
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Voyant Exploration
I used Voyant to analyze two speeches: Michelle Obama’s final speech as First Lady of the United States, and President Barack Obama’s final speech as President of the United States. Voyant takes in text which becomes a corpus that is then analyzed for things such as word frequency, total word count, unique word count, etc. […]
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Why I Use Google Slides Now
As a scholar interested in visual rhetoric and design, I am acutely aware of every font choice, background image, and text color in presentations as well as how many opportunities there are to have a bad visual presentation. Maybe the font is difficult to read, or there is too much text crammed onto one slide, or […]
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The Black Panther Party and Algorithms
The phrase I searched to compare the algorithms between Google and the Dartmouth Library Catalog was “black panthers.” While I was pleasantly surprised that the Google results represented just (albeit, liberal) readings of the party, the library catalog’s results were certainly more in line with a racial revolutionary’s perspective on the party. […]
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Text Analysis: Underwood, Brett, and Posner
Brett and Underwood make many of the same distinctions in their discussions of text analysis or text mining. Both emphasize that the tools of text mining are usually applied to very large collections of works and data. Both also stress that there is inevitably going to be some level of human intervention. In other words, […]
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Demography Meets the Digital Humanities
Abstract “A Digital Reading of Twentieth Century Demography” brings the tools of the digital humanities to the history of demography, or population science, in the twentieth century. The project provides an overview of population science in the twentieth century, identifying the broad outlines and thematic trends of the field. “A Digital Reading of Twentieth Century […]