Category Archives: discourse analysis

Exploration of Letter Make Up of English Words

Posted on October 31, 2014 by tylerrinker

This blog post will do a quick exploration of the grapheme make up of words in the English. Specifically we will use R and the qdap package to answer 3 questions: What is the distribution of word lengths (number of … Continue reading →

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Shape File Selfies in ggplot2

Posted on April 12, 2014 by tylerrinker

In this post you will learn how to: Create your own quasi-shape file Plot your homemade quasi-shape file in ggplot2 Add an external svg/ps graphic to a plot Change a grid grob's color and alpha *Note get simple .md version … Continue reading →

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qdap 1.3.1 Release: Demoing Dispersion Plots, Sentiment Analysis, Easy Hash Lookups, Boolean Searches and More…

Posted on March 14, 2014 by tylerrinker

We’re very pleased to announce the release of qdap 1.3.1 This is the latest installment of the qdap package available at CRAN. Several important updates have occurred since the 1.1.0 release, most notable the addition of two vignettes and some … Continue reading →

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Sentence Drawing: Part II

Posted on December 24, 2013 by tylerrinker

In a recent blog post I introduced Stefanie Posavec‘s Sentence Drawings. We created this ggplot2 rendition: We left off weighing the aesthetics of the Sentence Drawing with information of quality visualizations. I asked others to think of ways to display … Continue reading →

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Sentence Drawing: Function vs. Art

Posted on December 8, 2013 by tylerrinker

I recently was reading the book “Functional Art” and came across the work of Stefanie Posavec. Her Sentence Drawings (click here to see and click here to learn) caught my attention. Here is a ggplot2 rendition: From what I understand … Continue reading →

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qdap 0.2.2 released

Posted on May 20, 2013 by tylerrinker

I’m very pleased to announce the release of qdap 0.2.2 This is the third installment of the qdap package available at CRAN. The qdap package automates many of the tasks associated with quantitative discourse analysis of transcripts containing discourse, including … Continue reading →

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qdap 0.2.0 released

Posted on February 2, 2013 by tylerrinker

This is the first CRAN release of qdap (qdap 0.2.0) found here.  qdap (Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package) is an R package designed to assist in quantitative discourse analysis. The package stands as a bridge between qualitative transcripts of dialogue and … Continue reading →

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Gradient Word Clouds

Posted on November 13, 2012 by tylerrinker

I like word clouds because they are visually appealing and provide a ton of information in a small space. Ever since I saw Drew Conway’s post (LINK) I have been looking for ways to improve word clouds. One of the … Continue reading →

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Vice Presidential Debates with qdap-beta

Posted on October 13, 2012 by tylerrinker

After the presidential debates I used the beta version of qdap to provide some initial surface level analysis (LINK to Presidential Debates with qdap-beta). In the comments of that post, annon (a commenter) provided a link to an analysis/visualization that … Continue reading →

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