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integrated computational thinking

LA Practice A3: Conduct a mixed analysis (Activity)

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Step 6 of 11: Uploading Text to Voyant Tools

Explore the Voyant interface, examining the word clouds, keywords in context, and line graphs.

A thing to note about plays, character names tend to be some of the most frequently used words in the text. Care to guess why? You guessed it, names denote each character’s lines.

Your window should look like this:

As you play around with buttons and boxes, think about:

  • What can a tool like Voyant allow us to see about texts that we might not be able to see otherwise?
  • What do you find confusing about the tool?