Blog 2: Turning The Wooster Voice into Data

Some interesting questions in my group were: What is deemed important to tell the students? What topics are repeated? Who is writing/contributing the most to The Voice?

These are interesting because it gets into the reason The Voice exists, how it is used, who it is for, and if it is informative. Another significant benefit is being able to look at these records in the future, providing historical data for study.

To organize my main question of what is talked about in the voice, I would break it down:

My rows would include:

  • what week/ time the voice article I am looking at is.

What the columns would be:

  • Who is the author?
  • What is the main topic of the week?
  • Was this topic repeated in another week?
  • Is this a topic related to the school or a global event?
  • Was a day or week missed?

Some keywords would be for the rows, such as global or local, or repeated or single post. 

For data privacy, I would be sure to get permission from the authors to use their work in my studies, as their names are attached to the writing. I do have concerns about authors being targeted about topics that may be less agreed upon. The information is publicly posted already; however, if any personal information is in the writing, I would keep it vague.

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