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Readings due before class on Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Required

• Look through some of the chapters in Julia Silge and David Robinson, Tidy Text MiningJulia Silge and David Robinson, Text Mining with R (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2017), https://www.tidytextmining.com/.
  
  (but definitely don’t read them all! You just need to get a taste of what modern text analysis looks like.)
• A bunch of (really) short things:
  • Julia Silge, “She Giggles, He Gallops”
  • Abby Ohlheiser, “These are the words most associated with men and women, according to Facebook status updates”
  • Six Ideas for Displaying Qualitative Data
  • Word clouds considered harmful
  • Word clouds cause death… or something
  • When It’s Ok to Use Word Clouds
  • The Class of 2011
  • Every time Ford and Kavanaugh dodged a question, in one chart
  • Sentiment Analysis of The Book of Mormon
  • Tweet by @s_soroka

Questions to reflect on

• Why is qualitative data difficult to visualize?
• Why are word clouds so problematic? When is (not) okay to use them?