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naf51 / Federalist_Papers

This project is meant to do an analysis of the Federalist Papers to see whether or not its content is more egalitarian (for the people and equality) or elitist (for those who wrote it).
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Project Update 12/03 #20

Open ShaneMoniot opened 2 years ago

ShaneMoniot commented 2 years ago

At this week’s meeting we discussed the progress that Patrick has made XSLT, Nate with HTML/CSS, and Shane with SVG. Patrick was able to create XSLT to transform our XML into HTML to serve as the reading view on our website. Although there are a few things he needs to tweak, such as text colors and possibly adding check boxes to choose what is being shown, we feel that this is a good start. Nate worked on updating the HTML for our webpage, namely the about and analysis pages. We discussed visual changes that we want to make to the page, such as moving the blocks of text next to the side bar. Shane was able to use the data he obtained through topic modeling to generate a bar graph showing the frequencies of a topic in each of the papers that we are analyzing. There are a few minor changes that we want to make to the graphs, but this was a good start.

For next week, Patrick is going to continue making changes to the XSLT and finish transforming all of our XML into a reading-view, Nate is going to use flex-box or grid to rearrange our webpage to make it more appealing, and Shane is going to create the rest of the SVG graphs and some write-up explaining what exactly they are showing.

EmilyMartin42 commented 2 years ago

It sounds like you guys are making good progress! I looked at the site and I agree that the text should probably be moved up to the side bar because as it is when you change pages it can be hard to know because the content is so far towards the bottom. The top next to the side bar also looks a little empty. This seems a fairly small fix though and I think it will really improve your site! I'm really interested to see the results you found through the topic modeling, I think it is a great idea to create a visualization for that so readers can tell at a glance what is going on. Since your background color behind the text sections is so dark are you going to display the visualizations between text 'boxes'? I imagine it would be hard to read on the green. That being said, I do like the choice of bold color for the site:)

cmarkulin commented 2 years ago

I like how the project is coming along, and once you guys get the flex-box to display the contents next to the menu, I think the site will look really good. And it sounds like you guys are almost done with both the reading view and analysis/graphs, so not much more to go! Any idea how you guys are gonna incorporate the reading view into the corpus page? Is the checkbox going to be for both selecting which reading and the styling of the elements?