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Expand Up @@ -6,13 +6,6 @@ a single astrix to make text *italicized*, which you should use for book
titles. Remember to use Markdown to create links to any web resources in your
bibliography.

Below are a few examples
More to be added as project expands

* Cheyette, Fredric L. *Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours*. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2001.
* Chaniotis, Angelos. *Die Verträge zwischen kretischen Poleis in der hellenistischen Zeit*. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien 24. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996.
* Clinton, Kevin. “A Family of Eumolpidai and Kerykes Descended from Pericles.” *Hesperia* 73, no. 1 (2004): 39-57.
* Clinton, Kevin. “Eleusis and the Romans.” In *The Romanization of Athens: Proceedings of an International Conference held at Lincoln, Nebraska (April 1996)*, Oxbow Monographs 94, edited by Michael C. Hoff and Susan I. Rotroff, 161-82. Oxford: Oxbow, 1997.
* Coward, Fiona. "Small Worlds, Material Culture and Ancient Near Eastern Social Networks." In *Social Brain, Distributed Mind*, edited by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, and John Gowlett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
* Geagan, Daniel. “The Great Catalogue from the City Eleusinion.” *Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigrafik 33* (1979): 93-115.

If you want, you can break your bibliography into different sections, for example, one section for traditional historiography, and another for digitally related works. You do not have to do this though.
Lim, Elvin T. *Five Trends in Presidential Rhetoric: An Analysis of Rhetoric from George Washington to Bill Clinton*. Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol 32, No 2. Jun 2002. pp 328-366. www.jstor.org/stable/27552390
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# PUT YOUR PROPOSAL TITLE HERE

Project-Presidency
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## Assignment for HIS4936, [Hacking History](http://hacking-history.readthedocs.io)
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## The Proposal
J W Rae
Emily Greene
Joseph Bristol
Lady Marie Bulilan

HIS 4936 - Digital Humanities I - Hacking History
Dr Dave Thomas

### Introduction

The introduction should let the reader know why they should care about the
topic in general, and to the extent you are able at this time, what you are
going to say (or ask about) that topic. Use the introduction to let the
reader know basic facts, or to inform them (briefly)

Even where you are not sure of exactly where you are going. Try to give the
reader (namely, me) an idea about the the context of the problem or question
you are going to tackle. Above all, you should let the reader know
**why they should care**.
This project is an attempt to understand the language and rhetoric of American Presidential speeches throughout history. Specifically, we intend to analyze and compare the differences in topic, grammar, and length by using Inaugural Addresses and State of the Union Addresses. Through a comparison of these subjects in the corresponding texts, we hope to gain an understanding of how newly elected presidents spoke to the nation just after taking office, and their realities after leading the country for a year. This work could be used to understand changes in work of the presidency and efficacy of leadership.


### Introduction

The goals for the project are mainly to gain a deeper understanding of the ‘Language of the Presidency’ so as to better understand how the role has changed over time. The analytical tools allow a rich view of how word choices and subject matter have subtle differences between each President; We can then use that understanding to gain more insight into the experiences of the country under that leaders guidance. This is just a small section of written text intended to persuade audiences of voters and comes with all biases, intended or not. It is an important section to understand because it will provide a basis towards further analysis of much larger texts pertaining to all facets of governmental operations.

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### Workflow

When are where you think you might use certain information sources, let the
reader know which sources of information you are going to use, and how you
intend to get information from that source in a useable format.

Next, to whatever extent possible, let the reader understand how you envision
the overall workflow. That is, how do you intend to get from a to z. At this
stage, you probably have a lot of uncertainties, but you should try to think
this out as much as possible. What tool(s) do you intend to use for scraping?
For cleaning, visualizing? Will you have to transform the data into different
formats, if so how? How ensure that group members are not constantly waiting
on a single member to complete their phase? Can you think of ways that group
members can get updates in advance of the finished work, so that they can
start their own work?
Our data source comes from the American Presidency Project which is hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara. It is a collection of digitised documents, data, and other statistics pertaining to the presidency, and includes full text publications of every president’s speeches. Every president’s Inaugural and Union Address from George Washington to Donald Trump, easily searchable and indexed in a well documented way. The site also includes data about many aspects of the presidency, which includes Approval Ratings, Executive branch growth, and some voter records. This will serve as a solid foundation from which to build out more research on the subject.

We shall first use webscraper to datamine all the speeches into a plaintext csv. Using a bit of python code and programs developed by Professor Thomas we are able to separate each speech into its own .txt file, which will be usable for other analysis tools. We can then use tools like Voyant and OverviewDocs to index and search for prominent subjects and word groupings among the varying presidents. These can serve as the basis for some visualization work in Tableau. If time permits we could work on using more in-depth text analysis work within Python. After the text has been analyzed we can use supplementary data such as yearly approval ratings change, election results, and changes in the executive branch to further understand how the office grew and matured. This data can be analyzed with programs such as Gephi and Raw and further presented with the visualizations from Tableau.
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### Scholarship

Here is where you should expand a bit on any relevant scholarship, whether
digital or historical. If you refer to authors in your bibliography, you need
only use parenthetical (author, year) notation. If you are referring to a web
resource, you can always link directly to it.

This section should not be a large histiographical essay going on about the
merits or drawbacks of different individuals. That kind of discussion can go
in your final project. Instead, this should be a place to let your reader know
in the space of several paragraphs the basic schools of thought or important
works of scholarship that relate to your project. More importantly, you can
suggest what (potentially) a digital project such as the one you are proposing
could say to such a debate.

Remember that you can and should talk about both digital and historical
scholarship, when relevant. [Digital Humanities Quarterly](www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/)
is a good starting point.

Rather than think of this as a discussion about others, it might be more
helpful to think of it like this: in academia there are lots of scattered, but
important conversations going on, you can have more impact when you can connect
what you are saying to more and more of these conversations. So, you can think
of it like selling your project by linking it to its possible links to others.

To be added to as work continues
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