{"id":4,"date":"2023-02-20T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midterm.xuana.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2023-02-28T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:52:08","slug":"textual-analysis-of-the-new-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midterm.xuana.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/uncategorized\/textual-analysis-of-the-new-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"A Textual Analysis of the New Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my midterm project, I examined the New Testament using textual analysis tool Voyant.  For a more meaningful study, the focus was on only two books of the twenty-seven: \u201cGospel According to Saint Luke\u201d and \u201cGospel According to Saint John\u201d. The two books were analyzed in a contrasting method, aimed at finding the similarities and differences between the two. As someone who grew up in an atheist country, it is interesting to learn what the bible emphasized on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data comes from the midterm dataset created by Professor Austin Mason, Carleton College. The original file was in XML format, and I didn\u2019t change that since Voyant is capable of dealing with XML, although I have no prior experience with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Processes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data cleaning was not particularly necessary in this project, not only since I was not dealing with a csv form, but also because the original text file wasn\u2019t that complicated with mistakes. However, there still are preparations needed. First, I had to precisely find out the two books I wanted to investigate. I opened the file via chrome, and then used Ctrl+F to find out the titles and endings. The next step is to copy and paste anything in between to create a new XML file. The new file was in a clear formatting mess, but Voyant is still good enough to handle it. Second, after I uploaded the new files into Voyant, I went to the stopwords list to delete words such as \u201cunto\u201d and \u201cye\u201d, so-called archaic words that does not have much meaning in this context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presentation was not particularly difficult. Respectively, I uploaded the two files into Voyant, and then created analysis results using \u201ccirrus\u201d, \u201cstreamgraph\u201d, and \u201clink\u201d. The results are then exported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visualization:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For no reason I was unable to embed the Voyant links, so I only left the links but not the embedded visualization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cirrus of “John”<\/p>\n\n\n\n