Even more Evernote…

Following the text analysis by Wordle on President Carter’s inaugural and farewell speeches I decided to run the same two speeches through Tapor – another text analysis tool. Tapor lists the frequency of the words in the text and their distribution throughout the text but strips out frequently used words which do not add much meaning such as and, meanwhile, but etc. This is the so-called ‘Glasgow stop list’ as it was compiled by the Linguistics Department at the University of Glasgow. I only screen-clipped (with Evernote) the top ten words from each speech for comparison and certainly the difference in tone is noticable. In the inaugural speech the words used, like spirit, dream, new and nation, seem more upbeat and idealistic while the top words in the farewell speech  include President, rights, nuclear, difficult which seems more worldly and concrete in tone.

Carter's Inaugural Speech

Carter's Farewell Speech

I found the Tapor text analysis tool very useful. Picking out the frequently used words so quickly and easily from a speech could be really handy for my dissertation as I hope to examine the attitudes as well as actions of the Carter Administration and the US media towards Iran during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. This method could provide a real short-cut for me in doing this.

Using Evernote

Have managed to upload a number of pics to my Evernote account but only recently realised that you had to download the application too to gain maximum benefit! (thanks Mike) So now I can clip images or text to store it on Evernote too. I created a couple of Wordles which are really cute ‘word clouds’ made from uploaded text. The most-used words in the text appear larger and the program can present the text in different fonts, colours and directions. I created my two from President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural and farewell speeches to see if there was a contrast in the focus of his attention. Hopefully, I will attach the two of them below…