{"id":286,"date":"2007-01-24T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/01\/24\/what-did-he-say\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T14:02:15","slug":"what-did-he-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/01\/24\/what-did-he-say\/","title":{"rendered":"What did he say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Text Analysis has long been a staple of the humanities computing diet. Its use, however, is not limited to scholars of literature. Here&#8217;s an example of how text analysis in a graphical presentation can provide some interesting data.<br \/>\nThe New York Times has published a page that allows one to search President Bush&#8217;s State of the Union addresses for any keyword. It then displays the word count as a number and a graphic, and the location of the word in the speech. Clicking on the word&#8217;s location displays the word in context in its paragraph.<br \/>\nWhile this posting is making no political statements, it is easy to see how powerful visualizing words in this manner can be.<br \/>\n(Click for larger screen shot)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hag.blog.uvm.edu\/times-textanalysis-speech.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/files\/2007\/01\/times-textanalysis-speech-thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe page is at the NYTimes web site (free subscription required to view):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/washington\/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html?\" target=\"blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/washington\/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Analysis has long been a staple of the humanities computing diet. Its use, however, is not limited to scholars of literature. Here&#8217;s an example of how text analysis in a graphical presentation can provide some interesting data. The New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/01\/24\/what-did-he-say\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}