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Preparation
This page is a companion to a guest lecture prepared for ARCH 3819/ARCH5819.
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Class Preparation
Please bring a laptop! If you have one, bring your own. If you do not have own one, please feel free to check one out at the Olin circulation desk. Having a laptop will allow you to participate in the explorations and make discussion more meaningfulOur explorations are intended to be participatory.
No special software will be needed. All explorations will be done through a Web browser, without any special plugins.
Discussion of terms
There will be a short discussion where we define terms (at least loosely) that should give us so that we might use a common language for our discussion and critique of these tools and their strategies.
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All analysis tools will be demonstrated; no prior knowledge of any tools will be required. The room is equipped with video input to allow easy sharing of your desktop on the screen, so if . If you discover something that you would like to share and discuss, we can easily do so.
Word Frequencies
Voyant is a low barrier text analysis tool that delivers a rich, interactive interface and a variety of visualizations.
- Data: Plain : Text of your choosing. Upload interface accepts files in the following formats: plain text, PDF (with that has embedded OCR), MS Word Document, URL of your choosing. doc and docx files, URLs. Can take multiple documents to make a set. Upload of any material will be subject to the Voyant privacy policy.
- Analysis: Voyant environment lists every word in the document and counts for each. Also calculates frequencies based on the total word word count of the document(s) in the uploaded set.
- Visualization: Interactive dashboard: Wordcloud, graph of frequency over document segments, tabled secondary data, source data as text. Also has navigational aids that integrate source and secondary data, and utilities like stopword control, URLs for display, etc.
Sample texts and URLs for analysis are listed below for experimentation, but feel free to use other source data that interests you.
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