This was the week we looked at voyant tools and election speeches and Same diff. I learned a lot this week but I am not going to go through everything because then I might as well copy and paste the tutorial notes. This was the week the whole point of the unit started coming into focus as I began to really develop my project. I think the point of the tutorial was to look at how we can analyse text as data but at the time the whole thing just confused me and it’s only with hind sight that I can see the point.
However, despite my confusion, the tools we learned about this week made me think about my project objective more. I knew at this point that I wanted to do something with public art in Australia. I actually really wanted to use the QueryPic tool to bring together news articles about public art in different states. I ended up going in a different direction after realising it wasn’t quite what I wanted to achieve for my final project. But it did help get me thinking which was more than what I was doing up till that point.
