Class Exercise: Introducing Voyant Tools

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Choose one text from collection 1, and one text from collection 2:

Collection 1:

• Web archiving the war in Ukraine
• DIGIT 100 Comparative Website Development assignment
• Weather Channel Weatherscan shutting down
• Ada Lovelace Day: 6 women who shook up STEM

Collection 2:

• Girl
• The Story of an Hour
• Tell-Tale Heart

Take a few minutes to skim through the texts you chose. In your own view from reading, what seem to be the most important words and ideas?

Go to one of these sites to access Voyant Tools:

• main site: https://voyant-tools.org/
• mirror site: https://service.sadilar.org/voyant/

Copy and paste just the text of the story into the Voyant window. Then let's look at the outputs.

• What do you notice in the results? How do they compare with your reading of the texts?