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Week 1

5/31

  • Attended orientation
  • Met with advisor (Dr. Michael Zimmer)
  • Explored research papers related to Zuckerberg Files

6/1

  • Completed CITI modules
  • Reviewed Dr. Zimmer's paper
  • Explored analytics tools
  • Continued reviewing papers related to Zuckerberg Files

6/2

  • Met with Dr. Zimmer for further discussion, followed by lunch
  • Continued exploring potential tools
  • Continued reviewing papers related to Zuckerberg Files

6/3

  • Reviewed papers on quantitative textual analysis
  • Explored WordStat tool and quanteda R package

Week 2

6/6

  • Attended RCR training
  • Watched tutorials on WordStat tool

6/7

  • Read Yazeed Alhumaidan's dissertation methodology
  • Met with mentor to discuss potential tools
  • Explored possible tools for analysis and data cleaning

6/8

  • Attended talk on technical writing
  • Continued searching for possible tools

6/9

  • Met with adviser and touched base
  • Set in motion ordering for WordStat
  • Reviewed WordStat tutorials

6/10

  • Installed trial version of WordStat

Week 3

6/13

  • Obtained xml file of the archive
  • Created archive account
  • Began work on script to automate download and collection of transcripts

6/14

  • Continued working on script
  • Tested draft documents in WordStat

6/15

  • Attended research presentation given by Dr. Madiraju
  • Began debugging script

6/16

  • Finished debugging script
  • Organized all blog posts into one file for analysis

6/17

  • Automated conversion of files from .pdf to .txt files

Week 4

6/20

  • Cleaned set of files, so no interviews/video transcripts
  • Obtained official license for WordStat

6/21

  • Ran initial analysis in WordStat
  • Fine-tuned text processing
  • Refined some transcript errors

6/22

  • Attended research talk given by Dr. Bialkowski
  • Finished cleaning typos/errors in transcripts
  • Explored frequencies and topic extraction

6/23

  • Explored dendrogram anaylsis
  • Explored proximity plots
  • Experimented with different aspects of preprocessing

6/24

  • Explored link analysis
  • Experimented with postprocessing of text
  • Tested graphing for frequencies

Week 5

6/27

  • Attended talk on presentation
  • Produced graphs of initial findings
  • Reviewed relevant literature for presentation

6/28

  • Made PowerPoint for presentation
  • Rehearsed presentation
  • Revised relevant graphs

6/29

  • Gave presentation of work so far
  • Gathered creation dates of posts
  • Began process of changing post creation dates

6/30

  • Continued coding the change of creation dates
  • Experimented with cluster mapping

7/1

  • Creation dates successfully changed
  • Began experimenting with crosstab tool

Week 6