naiyaodhner
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2 years ago Everything seems like it’s going smoothly, and I’m glad that pulling and pulling is going well! Here are a few thoughts I had when reading this: Do you think there is any need to slightly adjust your research questions/intent being that you are only representing papers by Alexander Hamilton? It may be okay either way since the papers were only written by three people, but it could be good to be slightly more specific.. Any thoughts on how you will split up the papers or how many you would like to do yet? You mentioned that you intend to read them this week - does that mean all of them? Forming your methods for tagging and the specific tags you would like to use sounds great! Any ideas on how to identify exactly what is elitist/egalitarian/populist at this point? This may just be a later task so I’m sorry if it’s silly to mention, but it would be good to see a particular explanation for how you all determined what classifies as within the categories that you’re tagging. A visual display sounds like a great way to represent the origins of your data!! I hope that is able to be realized without too much trouble. Seems like great progress so far, looking forward to future updates!!
This week we began by sorting out git and github issues. Specifically, connecting git to github and achieving a successful push and pull. We found the entirety of the Federalist Papers on github written in xml and were able to push it to github successfully. After this, we went over our idea of analysis for the project. We want to do network analysis on the Federalist Papers written only by Alexander Hamilton, who wrote the most out of the three authors. We plan on doing this analysis by looking over the papers he wrote and coming up with elements and attributes that mirror words and phrases that are elitist and populist to see whether or not Hamilton's rhetoric mirrored his political beliefs or the views of the people. We also think that having a visual display of the papers would be a very good resource to have. To display photos, we were told that Javascript or xquery would be needed, more than what is taught in this class, but we think it would be very useful and beneficial to the user if they could actually see the papers and what they looked like. This week we are reading Hamilton's papers and creating elements and attributes that would mirror his rhetoric and also coming up with a Relax NG schema to use for Hamilton's papers.