I wasn’t able to be in class this week, so instead of gathering data in class, I took a look at how our class used the blog. Specifically, I took a look at the frequency of certain words, similar to the State of the Union Adress database we examined.
Data From 2/3: Reader Blog Posts: How many times did Readers use the following words?
Graphics: 2
Works of Art: 2
Photograph: 1
Hemings Count: 13
Jefferson Count: 27
Slavery: 13
Data: 9
Search: 8
The: 118
Data From 2/5: Kissinger Questions: How many times were the following words used by groups?
Data/database: 2
How: 7
What: 10
Why: 4
Mean: 4
Textplot: 6
Color: 3
Network: 2
Word: 4
The most interesting thing to me here are the question words (who, what, why, etc.). This would be a worthwhile thing to track throughout the semester, both on the blog and in class: the way students ask questions, and whether certain kinds of questions are more prevalent than others.Reference