An Interface and Search Engine for Deliberation
custom software for web
research project with Nik Hanselmann for Professor Warren Sack
Funded by a National Science Foundation Grant, Award #0416353
presented at the Digital Methods & Migration Workshop, Maison Suger and Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, June 22-24 2010

Allows users to search a corpus of articles and use lexical analysis tools, clustering algorithms and metric tags to sort the corpus and find trends. Users can then do a close reading of select articles. The process is iterative and allows users to save states along the way and revert to earlier steps in the process. The interface is written in Javascript and uses Python with NLTK and BeautifulSoup to prepare the corpus and article metrics.

More info at http://danm.ucsc.edu/~nick/