Exploring Voyant
Please complete the following activities, and answer the following questions, with your group. Each group should submit only one form.

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There is a LOT going on in Voyant. Think of it as a kind of dashboard for your texts. Each pane of the dashboard visualizes one kind of analysis, so take your time to get a sense of what each does.

Pay attention to the icons in the top right-hand corners of each pane; they actually add a lot of functionality, including extensive help documents and individually citeable URLs.

As if that weren't enough, you can swap in other kinds of analysis, of which there are many! You can find them listed here: https://voyant-tools.org/docs/#!/guide/tools.

With your group, take some time to experiment with the tools, and then answer the questions.
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1. Click on individual words in Cirrus, the word-cloud visualization that appears by default in the upper left-hand corner of your Voyant dashboard. What happens when you click on individual terms?

2. Can you figure out how to swap out tools in each Voyant windowpane?

3. How can you tell which texts are contained in your corpus?

4. Can you figure out how to get an alternate corpus or text (something besides Jane Austen or Shakespeare) into Voyant?

4. Here are some interesting tools to try: Corpus Tools/Mandala; Corpus Tools/Loom; Document Tools/Knots; Visualization Tools/Streamgraph; Visualization Tools/Microsearch. Check these out with other members of your group, talking about what you find.
Which of these tools seems most useful to you? Why?
Can you formulate a literary or historical question that you could answer -- or at least explore -- with any of these tools?
I said in my lecture that each text analysis tool has an implicit argument about where meaning can be found in a text. Focusing on one tool, explain where it identifies meaning in a text, and say a little bit about where you agree and disagree.
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