Voyant Tools Group 3 (middle Eliot)

[cmohge1]

Please post your thoughts and sample visualisations below.

[CathGalway]

I've used the distinctive words as stop words, to remove the characters' names and places from the noise. I'm now looking at words such as looked and looking, and noticing that they're almost used to mean gazing at, rather than appearing as.

[CathGalway]

Look at this one though! https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=0070cd4c27086b286d10c072ca86b69e&stopList=keywords-006dcdb076e2329a67f6b8d1b5ad9ea0&query=girl*&mode=corpus&view=CollocatesGraph

[CathGalway]

As distinct from this one https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=0070cd4c27086b286d10c072ca86b69e&stopList=keywords-006dcdb076e2329a67f6b8d1b5ad9ea0&query=boy*&mode=corpus&view=CollocatesGraph

[ElisaCas]

Hello everyone,

I have just made a basic and simple visualization with Voyant, since it is my first I am not familiar with this tool. I'll copy the link here below and hope it works. I am open to your suggestions, opinions and explanations, especially to better understand Voyant potentiality and my misrepresentations and missed focuses. Did you obtain anything similar?

Thank you all in advance!

https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=91fa7e7ca8026df4fbf12dd324f43e6b&lang=en&panels=cirrus,reader,trends,summary,contexts

I'll try to answer to the given questions for this exercise:

1. Did you edit the stop words list? (Did you notice any stop words in the results?)

Here the most relevant links Voyant generated:
https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=91fa7e7ca8026df4fbf12dd324f43e6b&lang=en&query=said&query=man&query=like&mode=corpus&view=CollocatesGraph
Stopwords list was already set, I didn’t change it, but, when I did, words like “the”, “and”, “that” or “to", increased, as shown in the Cirrus panel, and links were less relevant, in my opinion. So I went back to default settings. Now “said”, "like" and “man” seem to be the most used and also correlated. While the summary reveals that the most frequent words in the corpus are: said (2183); man (886); like (817); little (809); tito (803) and that the most distinctive words are :

1. eliot_felix-holt: mr (774), harold (506), felix (494), esther (467), transome (415).

2. eliot_romola: tito (803), romola (717), florence (309), tessa (253), fra (190).

3. What word trends did you find compelling?
   Relations between the most used words in both two texts that are “said”, “man”, “like”, little” and “tito” and especially the progression in this last term. “Said” decreases in Romola vs “Tito” that increases in Romola and reach is lowest point in Felix Holt

4. List and take note of three prominent word linkages (hint: use the Links and/or Terms Berry feature).
   Man-like-said
   Esther-said-Romola
   Little –like-man

5. What collocates distinguished themselves in the text?
   Not sure to understand the question. It seems to me that all the correlations are negative, almost around 0, so there are no meaningful correlations in those cases (according to Voyant explanation grid). Values are all around 0.34 or 0.35 and all related to “man” and another word (forward, clear, conscious, father’s, just to name a few).

6. Did keywords-in-context searches of high-frequency terms change your mind about themes and ideas?
   I am not sure about the answer. If you don’t know anything about these texts, you can’t make any assumptions, especially about themes. The word “said” is used as the main word to built sentences in both Eliot’s works, it is the most used and useful to create dialogues. Said-tito-man-like-little.

7. Given your attention to a selection of texts, do these results differ significantly? Is there any result in particular that surprises you? What questions could you post now that you have a broader view of Eliot's texts?

Voyant analyzed 8 Eliot's documents. “Said” it is the most used word, once again. Maybe we can establish same connection between Eliot's texts of the same period or think about relevance of dialogues to write the plot?
Said-Mr-Like is the most common and used link, as Cirrus reveals. Said, little and like are in common in both the Voyant visualizations. Correlations are week, as well, from 0.24 to 0.17, so no relevant correlations.

Here the results from Voyant for the entire corpus:

Most frequent words in corpus: said (9990); mr (4795); like (3742); little (3006); know (2765)
Most distinctive words:

1. eliot_adam-bede: hetty (632), dinah (448), poyser (412), seth (283), arthur (360).
2. eliot_daniel-deronda: deronda (1,083), gwendolen (1,018), grandcourt (665), mirah (418), mordecai (263).
3. eliot_felix-holt: harold (506), felix (494), transome (415), esther (467), lyon (311).
4. eliot_lifted-veil: bertha (61), bertha's (21), meunier (16), prague (13), pierre (7).
5. eliot_middlemarch: lydgate (865), dorothea (823), casaubon (544), fred (501), bulstrode (489).
6. eliot_mill-and-the-floss: maggie (1,228), tulliver (620), glegg (325), stephen (255), tom (1,047).
7. eliot_romola: tito (803), romola (717), tessa (253), florence (309), fra (190).
8. eliot_silas-marner: silas (225), godfrey (202), marner (161), eppie (129), raveloe (66).

[CathGalway]

Hi Elisa,

Yes, my visualization looks a lot like yours.
Catherine

[MarkQUB]

https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=334e32b5727e541d4867f59141c44a49&stopList=keywords-6974d52ca5a1d4b55646d8b25bf2975c&query=said&query=man&query=little&mode=corpus&view=CollocatesGraph

Here is one I made by combining 2 texts, Romola and Felix Holt. I took out the most common character names etc. and interestingly the most common word is 'man', often in conjunction with 'make', 'know' or 'say'.

[EBenbow1]

Hi all,

Just wanted to add that I've been looking at Romola too for the moment, and the visualisation is looking the same as both of yours :)

https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=eee9d3a9bc7c13016b9d45071fecdd9c&query=florence&query=life&query=come&query=chief&query=government&mode=corpus&view=CollocatesGraph

I thought it was interesting here how some of the terms related to each other. - Looking at Florence as a term, and some of the associated words.

[EBenbow1]

With Felix Holt I was also interested in the fluctuation between the appearance of different words at different times - for instance, character names, and was wondering whether that indicated the comparative presence/prominence of a character at different points of the work.

https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=6b0626d9afb7e576cb5560808b26d324&query=said&query=mr&query=harold&query=felix&query=esther&mode=document&view=Trends

Best wishes,

Eliot

[CathGalway]

https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=334e32b5727e541d4867f59141c44a49&stopList=keywords-6974d52ca5a1d4b55646d8b25bf2975c&query=said&query=man&query=little&mode=corpus&view=CollocatesGraph

Here is one I made by combining 2 texts, Romola and Felix Holt. I took out the most common character names etc. and interestingly the most common word is 'man', often in conjunction with 'make', 'know' or 'say'.

I'm really interested in the prominence of "little" in this visualisation, although when you look at it, there are only 16 instances of it. I guess this relates to what you were saying, Elisa, about there being low correlations.