{"id":1491,"date":"2019-11-08T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2019-11-14T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:45:29","slug":"historical-question-and-text-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/text\/historical-question-and-text-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Question and Text Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Text analysis has been proven to help a person be able to decipher\nwhat they need from a length of text in order to help them with their current\nresearch. In this project, I used test analysis to help me research and narrow\ndown my historical question. My historical question was, \u201cHow did the Great\nDepression affect outlawing in the Midwest?\u201d and I went into this research\nthinking that it would be interviews discussing how outlaws would be going\naround and stealing goods from families who are better off  or that you would see an exponential increase\nin theft in the Midwest but that wasn\u2019t the case. To conduct this research, I looked\nat interviews conducted in the Midwest which just happened to take place in\nmajority of Texas with an outlier of one taking place in Utah. I used search words\nsuch as \u201coutlaw\u201d and \u201cMidwest\u201d which narrowed it down a bit for me to conduct\nmy research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Afterwards, to conduct the test analysis I used Voyant Tools. <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> My experience with this tool was somewhat challenging as there were some features that were not functioning for a while in addition to that there were some confusing to understand as well. Over the course of me using Voyant Tools and using close reading, I was able to change my assumptions and ideas I had about what these interviews would be about. In the graph below, are the words that I saw were more important in these interviews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was able to see pair my close and distant reading with new\nkeyword searches and the results showed that throughout the documents, cattle\nand Indians were used quite a bit as that was what the interviewee was discussing.\nThe final conclusion I can make about my historical question is that outlawing\ncan look differently than what we are used to talking about such as train robbing,\npetty crime, theft, etc. from other people when it could be as simple as\nAmerican Indians trying to fight back on their territory and take what could\npossibly be theirs. Text analysis, distant, and close reading were all useful to\nme as they helped me find new paths to explore my question from a different angle.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text analysis has been proven to help a person be able to decipher what they need from a length of text in order to help them with their current research. In this project, I used test analysis to help me research and narrow down my historical question. My historical question was, \u201cHow did the Great … Continue reading “Historical Question and Text Analysis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}