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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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What Can You Do With Crowdsourced Digitization
Crowdsourcing your artifacts to the public can be a useful way of tackling some of the work that needs to get done for a particular project. With that idea comes a fair amount of planning, preparation, and work to get ready for the outside world’s contributions. This module taught me the importance of not only having a project and artifacts but also choosing the right material for crowdsourcing and making sure that whatever you decide to do, that it is easy on the user to help. If you don’t then it can negatively impact your project and probably future funding. On the other hand, if you do succeed in that…
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Palladio
With Palladio, the user was able to see a clearer picture of the relationships between two types of topics at a time. A limitation of Palladio and any network visualization is that there are ways of only comparing two topics and not more than two otherwise it gets harder to analyze. Based on the readings this is expected because to have more than two would be incomprehensible, especially with a large data set for the activity. For the activity we uploaded an Excel spreadsheet that was already parsed correctly. Then we had a chance to upload tables based on the input data and then filter what we wanted based on…
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Why Metadata Matters
Using this example from the JSTOR database, Equilibrium in the Jungle: The metadata describes the object image, title, authors, object type, object’s tags, publisher, and abstract. The metadata of this object does not describe the location or when it was originally published. It allows me to ask why this item was digitized, what was its importance? I believe that metadata is important because it gives the user more information about an object. They can then use it for various reasons, i.e. academic, personal, etc. The JSTOR example references some of the standard metadata fields but I would like to be able to have more data and other ways of viewing the…
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A Guide to Digitization
This activity showed that digitization of objects can prove useful and informative but it has its limits. The photos and videos shown here are what I used in the activity.