{"id":3319,"date":"2025-03-05T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:00:40","slug":"labs-8-and-9-literary-data-with-voyant-and-palladio-3-5-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp25\/2025\/03\/05\/labs-8-and-9-literary-data-with-voyant-and-palladio-3-5-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Labs 8 and 9: Literary Data with Voyant and Palladio (3\/5\/25)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voyant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/\">Voyant<\/a> is a tool for distant reading. It helps us identify patterns within a text or set of texts (<em>corpus<\/em>). Today, we&#8217;ll use it to take a birds-eye view of how people view communities in the region. Remember that as a <em>quantitative<\/em> method, distant reading generally asks us to formulate a hypothesis about what we might find when we analyze our texts. So what similarities and differences might you expect about the texts you&#8217;ve chosen? You can compare across geography (St. Louis vs. Edwardsville, for instance) or across chronology (St. Louis in 1860 vs. St. Louis today) or some combination thereof. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Choose at least two texts to compare.&nbsp;You can choose from encyclopedia entries in this <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1DrBSf3mO7LOSAZFH7-OigohrcgG0WdR6?usp=sharing\">Google Drive folder<\/a>, and\/or you can use Wikipedia articles (current or older versions). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Skim at least one of them and develop a hypothesis about what you might find when you compare your texts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Input the two texts as a corpus and choose a visualization with which to test your hypothesis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Write a blog post describing your texts, question, hypothesis, and results.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Palladio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Palladio is a tool for visualizing and exploring data through maps, network charts, and categories. We&#8217;re going to begin by creating our own data set of immigration and migration data using the 1900 Census.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Working in a group, choose a census from this folder and add at least three lines apiece to the spreadsheet. (If you get stuck on handwriting, let me know and we can look at it together.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Together, we&#8217;ll put the data into Palladio and see what patterns emerge.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1xf_KwIB-zQt0D85E6IF5LZzHK8tn0AIL?usp=drive_link\">Census images<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/132YmQkuLu5ag03U8XU1UqvrpNCHTeZ7wIS5T7wjk6Pw\/edit?usp=sharing\">Census spreadsheet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voyant Voyant is a tool for distant reading. It helps us identify patterns within a text or set of texts (corpus). Today, we&#8217;ll use it to take a birds-eye view of how people view communities in the region. 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