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Quantifying Cultural Changes Through A Half-Century Of Song Lyrics And Books, Robert Bruce Woodward Iii
Quantifying Cultural Changes Through A Half-Century Of Song Lyrics And Books, Robert Bruce Woodward Iii
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Music is an ever-changing cultural reflection. It is deeply integrated into our society, ubiquitous
in movies, television shows, restaurants, sport venues, churches and a plethora of
other places. This thesis proposes that we consider the lyrics in popular music, as determined
by Billboards Hot 100 chart, as a natural medium to analyze the changes in culture
over the past half-century. Using this collection of lyrics, we analyze the change in relative
frequency of individual words over time, and compare to works of literature. Furthermore,
we use the ranking in the Top 100 as a metric with which to explore the …
Mathematical Modeling Of Public Opinion Using Traditional And Social Media, Emily Cody
Mathematical Modeling Of Public Opinion Using Traditional And Social Media, Emily Cody
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
With the growth of the internet, data from text sources has become increasingly available to researchers in the form of online newspapers, journals, and blogs. This data presents a unique opportunity to analyze human opinions and behaviors without soliciting the public explicitly. In this research, I utilize newspaper articles and the social media service Twitter to infer self-reported public opinions and awareness of climate change. Climate change is one of the most important and heavily debated issues of our time, and analyzing large-scale text surrounding this issue reveals insights surrounding self-reported public opinion. First, I inquire about public discourse on …