Here is a link to our final project, which took a look at word frequencies in Convocation descriptions to reflect on what kinds of topics and speakers Convocations have featured over time, from 1962-1978, then from 1978-2020. Take a gander! Visit our website here
Take a look at what we’ve been chugging away at for the past few weeks! Introduction This project takes on Convocation data from Carleton College, since its beginnings in 1962, to its brief intermission from 1968 through 1977, then to its reintroduction in 1978 until the present, to understanding patterns over time using text analysis. […]
Progress As of the end of class Tuesday we have done our initial text processing in Voyant tools, which indicated to us we would need to do a bit more editing to the data in order to make it machine readable/effective in visualizing the program data. Our personal research has helped us begin making hesitant […]
I am interested in thinking about convo in its other iterations, before discoursed surrounding the purpose of convo was as strongly focused around promoting inclusion and diversity in the specifically 21st political sense. How was the purpose of convo defined before many of the college’s official language circled around these sorts of ideas? From a […]
The members of our motley crew are: Spencer Lekki, Chloe Truebenbach, and Cecilia Kryzda. Our project objectives are twofold: we seek to compare the keywords, themes, host departments to general descriptions and purpose statements about Convocation. Further, we would like to observe changes in Carleton’s institutional ideas of importance. From a cursory skim of the […]
