Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Voyant/Ngram Observations



On the left is a screenshot of after inserting all of my blog posts into the section in "Voyant." It gave me a group of words of which I used the most and the ones that were used more than others will be bigger compared to the ones used less throughout every blog of mine.










Below are two screenshots I took of the program "Voyant" that show some other pretty interesting information about my blog posts. On the left it showed me what phrases I used the most throughout all posts, although since my posts consisted of mostly paragraphs, there weren't too many phrases being used multiple times. If there was a phrase used more than once, the highest amount it got to was only being used twice. The screenshot on the right portrays a different way of visualization with a type of line graph to show how many times a word was used and also when, in my documents, it was written.
The other program I used to get deeper information about my blogs was Google's "Ngram." This program is used to see how much a certain word was used in different time periods. For mine, I used a few of the top words written in my blogs that I thought would be relevant with each other. Two of the words I chose have been used since even before the 1800's, unlike three other words I picked that weren't used nearly as much in the 1800's and all the way up until now. I believe this is because the two words I picked that had a lot of usage were very common words that were and are still used much today. On the other hand, the three words that weren't brought up too much are more specific words that have more relevance to times closer to now rather than earlier dates.

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