Date: Summer 2020 – present
Partner(s): Maanya Goenka
The broad goal of this project is to determine how word clouds are being used in various arenas such as digital humanities and journalism, with the eventual goal of creating visually pleasing but effective word clouds. Along with Professor Eric Alexander and Maanya, I used grounded theory (a method of qualitative data analysis that involves hypothesis formation through data collection) to study word cloud usage in digital humanities academia and journalism. I then analyzed the collected data. This is the first long-term research project I have been involved in, and we are currently writing up the results of our survey for publication.
