Writing with Visualizations
Instructions for how to use this site to write your multimedia essay can be found at the accompanying documentation site, https://learn-static.github.io/writing-with-visualizations/.
Your essay will be written on the Essay page.
Links to all of the State of the Union Addresses and Party Platforms used in our text analysis and topic modeling activities can be found on the Data page.
Topic visualizations will appear as you name them, and you can use the Include Generator page to create code that includes supporting documents and images into your essays.
About the data used for this project:
The State of the Union Addresses and Party Platforms used for the text analysis and topic modeling in this site were obtained from the University of California Santa Barbara's American Presidency Project. This data can be found in multiple formats in this website's GitHub repository in the /assets/data/ folder.
Only Democratic and Republican parties were included in our 20th-century Party Platforms data.
Topic modeling was performed on these texts using the jsLDA tool by David Mimno. Information on the number of iterations performed on each corpus can be found in this site's GitHub repository at _data/topic-data.csv spreadsheet.
The stopword list used for the State of the Union Address topic modeling and analysis is the Buckley-Salton stopword list, retrieved from Alan Liu workshop at http://dhworkshop.pbworks.com/w/file/105416844/Buckley-Salton-stopword-list.txt. The Buckley-Salton stopword list was also used for the Party Platforms, with the addition of three words: america, american, and americans.