In this class, we examined how Voyant, an open-source, web-based application for interpretation of texts or corpus. This technique illustrates and analyze the text and transform word into visualize data. My focus would be how this analyzation and visualization help in daily readings and even on scholarly writings. In what extend can we learn from the data being analyzed in Voyant.
How does Voyant analyze The crisis magazines?
I chose Modernist Journals | Crisis. A Record of the Darker Races. Vol. 1, No. 6. I exported and analyze it on the Voyant so that it demonstrated the the word that is being used.
It demonstrated that most frequent words in the corpus: project (7); journals (6); modernist (4); object (4); archives (3).
It demonstrated what chapter is the word on and what page it showed on. The chart showed the frequency in the document segments.
Can we use Voyant as a resource in our daily life? What kind of resources?
The Voyant is powerful tool to analyze the text and the frequency of how words being used in the document. It may not be useful in daily used for reading magazine that we just need to get the information out of. However, I think it is interesting to see and know to analyze. For example, how the author mainly used the word to demonstrate or highlight what kind of point of view in the project. Or we can analyze for ourselves for published document that the frequency word we use and how is it affect in the document.
Overall, I think Voyant is a powerful tool but it is not very helpful in our daily reading.