Analyzing data

I’m going to ask you to do some analysis of data, either using Excel (best for rectangular data) or Voyant Tools (best for text data). Here are some resources related to both analysis approaches:

Analyzing data with Excel

Data sources

• Louisiana education data
• Gapminder

Tool

• Tulane Micosoft 365

Resources

• How to interview a big pile of data, David Eads, NPR.
• Pivot tables in Excel, to count data or find means by group
• Transposing data with Excel
• Unpivoting data with Excel (first you have to create a Query)
• The Datawrapper page now has some links to how they expect data

Analyzing text data with Voyant tools

Data sources

• Project Gutenberg
• Hathi Trust
• NORDc Facilities

Tool

• Voyant tools

Resources

• Voyant tools documentation

• Tulane libguide on text data

• University of St Thomas libguide on text data

• Sentiment datasets

• Categories in Voyant (this is where the red and green is coming from!)

• Word2vec: fish + music = bass

• Semantle, a game based on word2vec

• contexto, says it is based on “AI” but I bet it is word2vec