Data isn’t neutral, and neither are your choices when creating digital projects and text analysis!
As you saw me demonstrate in my last post, missteps happen.
That’s why we learn as much as we can, and often that’s an active process! It’s important to understand what is happening when we enter our data into Voyant, and what choices we make when engaging with digital tools.
The work Voyant produces is actually a series of choices that condition Voyant’s possibility. The choices you make with your data matter, and shifting how you enter them is one way you can control your corpora’s analysis. Another way is with stop words. Making choices in your data is not permanent, necessarily; oftentimes, you can change how you enter your data and how Voyant interacts with that data. See below for tips and tricks!
Voyant Text Guide for Students 