My Digital History Project

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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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    Social Media Strategy: Circling the Drain: A Textual Analysis of the Watergate Scandal

    For my project, Circling the Drain: A Textual Analysis of the Watergate Scandal, I want to use the social media platforms of Blogging, Twitter, and Pinterest. I believe that these three platforms will provide the best coverage and accessibility to my project. Target audience: Blogging will be aimed at scholarly individuals, mostly historians, and computer scientists to offer them a more in-depth look at my project and provide feedback Twitter will be aimed at mostly individuals not familiar with Watergate and wish to know more. There might be some scholarly individuals that might be interested in this project on this platform Pinterest will be aimed at mostly organizations and individuals…