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Object and Color Search Transforms Film Search Engine

This John Hunter received a L&IT 2018 Summer Research Project grant to expand the functionality of his Film Search Engine. Working with him was his Sarah Eckermann, who is also his Presidential Fellow. Here is an update on their progress: The Film/Search Engine’s ongoing projects this summer focused around integrating the three main modules that can be used to search/analyze the films in the database with the new front end: those modules are (1) a text-string search that looks for search strings in the closed caption files of the films; (2) an object search that uses neural net processing to find […]

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Latinx Twitter

In the summer and fall of 2017, DP&S worked with Professor Elena Machado and Tucker Leighty-Phillips (English ’18) on a project that compared the social media use of 43 Latinx writers and artists. In the late spring, Machado and Leighty-Phillips used TAGS–a free Twitter archiving tool–to generate Twitter archives for the identified writers. In mid-June they opted to focus their analysis on the top 18 Twitter users. Later, the archives were downloaded, cleaned, and brought into Voyant as a corpus for analysis. Leighty-Phillips focused his analysis on the use of the word Love across 6 writers. Machado focused her work […]

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