The tools and concepts that we learn in this class ultimately serve to answer a research question. Here, I've collected online writing that uses text mining well to investigate and tell a good story. Use these as inspiration for your final projects.
- The Language of the State of the Union. Benjamin Schmidt and Mitch Fraas.
- Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half. David Robinson.
- The Birdy Pulpit — Analyzing Trump's Twitter Account. George Elliott Morris.
- Does sentiment analysis work? A tidy analysis of Yelp reviews. David Robinson.
- Screen Time!. Benjamin Schmidt.
- How Reddit Talked About The 2016 Presidential Campaign, From ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ To ‘Yuge’. Ritchie King.
- The Foreign Language of 'Mad Men'. Benjamin Schmidt.
- The instability of gender. Ted Underwood.
- Language Log
- Sapping Attention - Benjamin Schmidt's blog.
- Variance Explained - Blog by David Robinson.
- The Crosstab - Political data blog.
- FiveThirtyEight - News organization focused on data reporting.
- The Stone and The Shell - Blog by Ted Underwood.