https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=268ebc049399622516f3b5969d5e36bc

Overall, my findings were to be expected when using the data set for Voyant. The most interesting thing that I found was that out of the top four words, three were “man”, “men”, and “mr.”. Mr. was nearly the most prevalent word for the entire data set. I think that this shows how much importance is left to the individual man for the historical context of the time. 

If we are to look at gender roles in these texts, it is very obvious that they are very male centered (whether intentional or not). Of the predetermined most prevalent words there is only mention of enslaved people and men that characterize people and individuals.

 One of the most interesting tools that I used in Voyant was the dreamscapes option. This shows an interactive map, tracking the movement of key words and places. A majority of these bounce back and forth between North America and Africa. While this function is not necessarily the most accurate due to the possibility of different intended meanings of locations, it could still be an important tool when looking at interactions between countries and possible world dynamics.

From my looking around, I also looked at the least  used words in the data set. I think that to an extent these can be useful in looking at specific words and how they might be compared to other words that may be used more frequently; however, there are also numerous words that are only used once and appear to be a pointless inclusion into the data set. Additionally, there is the inclusion of numbers and specific large numbers that do not appear to have any importance on the information trying to be analyzed. I have come across this in other Text analysis using this program because it not only reads the meat of the article but citations, graphics, and footnotes. I have also had trouble before with it including URLs, which is most frustrating.  

Overall, one of the most useful things I found when playing with this dataset is honestly the word cloud. As a person who is a visual learner, this is incredibly helpful in initially conceptualizing what is being presented and if there are adjustments needed to the filters of the program. Along with giving us a very aesthetic graphic to work with, it also provides a quick analysis of what is being presented as a whole for the text analysis of the documents. This is what I would equivalate to an abstract of the analysis of the files provided.