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Doing Digital Humanities
Looking back at this digital humanties project that I completed at the end of my first semester in graduate school has proved a positive but at times challenging learning experience. I used the Watergate Special Prosecution Force Transcripts from the years 1971 to 1973. Imported the transcribed PDFs into Voyant 2.4. During my initial take at this project, I thought that it would be a simple idea of just importing the transcript PDFs and see what I get as an output. As I used the Voyant tool more, I realized two important lessons:1. I needed to rename the PDFs so that I can understand what day the transcript is referring…
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Circling the drain Project:1971 Watergate Transcripts
To look at the whole view of the 1971 Watergate transcripts visit here. This first image below is of an unfiltered/unaltered world cloud of transcripts from April to October of 1971. On initial glance of the graph below, notice that the words “president,” “ehrlichman,” “haldeman,” “unintelligible,” and “uh” are larger than the other words. This could mean that in the transcripts, these people are talking or they are being talked about. Two words mean that the words that were spoken were unintelligible to the transcriber and thus written down as such and the “uh” is a word that was spoken during these conversations many times. From this moment on, I took…
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CIRCLING THE DRAIN PROJECT:1973 WATERGATE TRANSCRIPTS
If you wish to view the whole Voyant GUI for 1973, click here The StreamGraph shows the frequency of the words throughout the corpus. In the Reader view below, you can see the frequency of the words by hovering over the words. The bar graph at the bottom shows how long the documents are and can be compared between each other. In the TermsRadio visualization below, it shows the frequency of the words throughout the documents in this case over time. You can click on a word to see how the word fluctuates over time.
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CIRCLING THE DRAIN PROJECT:1972 WATERGATE TRANSCRIPTS
To look at the whole corpus in Voyant, click here. The SteamGraph below shows the most frequent words throughout a corpus. As you can see from this initial view, Haldeman is mentioned frequently from all of June and Hunt from November of 1972. When looking at the transcripts, this is because there were conversations with Nixon and Haldeman and Nixon and Hunt. In the Bubblelines visualization below, you can see the frequency of a particular word throughout the corpus. The bigger the circle, the most frequent it is used in the transcripts. In the Mandala tool, you can click on the word in the colorful box to see where it…
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Protected: Circling the Drain: Textual Analysis of Nixon’s Watergate Tapes Transcripts
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