[Project] I stepped into an Avalanche

[maxarvid]

Pitch

In 2012 Leonard Cohen's manager was jailed for harassment against the artist. Did this change the music Cohen produced in the following years?

Summary

The story of Cohen's producer has been widely reported, and has been used to explain his late-career comeback. If we use TD-IDF on his complete lyrics, can we see any interesting changes in his career trajectory?

Details

Possible headline(s): Textual analysis of Cohen's lyrics points to jailing of manager / Textual analysis of Cohen's lyrics independent from life events

Data set(s): https://www.azlyrics.com/c/cohen.html

Code repository: https://github.com/maxarvid/data-studio/tree/master/code/05_avalanche

Possible problems/fears/questions: How best to illustrate this visually...

Work so far

The lyrics have been acquired, after some painstaking tweaking of the scraper. The TDIDF is up and running and just needs to be used to see if the albums before 2012 are closer together or not. If there's time, it would be cool to run a grouping algorithm (logistic regression? random forest?) to group the songs/albums and see what meaning can be derived.

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[Weihua4455]

Super interesting research question, though emotion analysis could be a tricky thing to do. I'd love to see what you came up!

[sarahslo]

i think it's not only the years following the jailing that you want to look at, but the years he was being harassed. is there evidence of that in his music?