Exercise 1: Voyant
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(an already prepared dataset)
1.) Go to
2.) Cut and paste the URLs below to the Scrape box (right side) and click Scrape
The URLs are to text files on of Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; My Bondage My Freedom; Abolition Fanaticism in New York; and Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
3.) Click on Prepare and then Scrub
Select: "Make Lowercase," "Remove Digits," "Scrub Tags," "Remove Punctuation," and "Keep Hyphens"
Click Apply
4.) In the Lemmas box add the below, click Apply, and then Download.
5.) Locate the download text files and open one. We will discuss the results.
3.) Explore some of the lemma words (above) with different Voyant tools. Look at the different ways you can view their frequencies, relationships to other words, and their locations within the texts.
1.) What tools do you find most useful or promising be it for analyzing these texts or texts you are interested in exploring.
2.) What might be some of the challenges and pitfalls of Voyant as you understand it so far?
3.) Are there anyways you can see text analysis (in Voyant or another tool) fitting in with your own research or teaching?
1.) Download the or use the one you created in part one.
2.) Upload the dataset to
(Internet Archive - search"boston public school," facets selected: Texts, Always Available)
(Internet Archive - search "boston health," facets selected: Texts, Always Available)
for a variety of pre-1923 books.