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Intro to Text Analysis
Due: Tuesday March 12
Approx. 300-500 words and 3 embedded visualizations.
Select a set of 4-6 terms to investigate (hint: use the major words that appear in the Cirrus wordcloud to identify prominent terms and your knowledge of 19th century slave narratives to make productive associations). Using one of the visualizations covered in this lesson (Trends, Bubblines, Cirrus, and Links) and the two additional tools not covered in the lesson (Loom, Streamgraph, Knots, Microsearch, Scatterplot, and Mandala), brieflydescribe how your terms appear in each of your visualizations.
What are some additional questions that your visualizations provoke which might be investigated further through close reading?
You may optionally get started on the Intro to Topic Modeling slides, but we’ll cover these in class if you don’t get to them.
You may optionally complete this assignment in teams of up to three. If you complete this assignment as a team, each team member needs to complete the team evaluation form separately.
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Final Project Guidelines
Your final project should be quantitative, argument-driven and interactive. The details are up to you. A project which is more heavily qualitative might only have one or two interactive visual elements; a heavily interactive project might have less essay text.
At a minimum, your project proposal should identify the dataset/s you’ll be working with, your team, and your goals. Your proposal must include:
- a data critique
- an outline of data cleaning you anticipate might be necessary
- a brief secondary bibliography of other works related to your data
- an outline of possible research questions or anticipated argument (think grant proposal)
- an outline of goals for possible data visualizations and reader interactions
- an outline of each persons’ responsibilities and roles if proposing a team project
- a timeline of project milestones, in addition to the April 9 wireframe due date and May 16 final due date