Highlights
Analyse the metadata and linguistic summary from a real on-line forum and submit a report of your findings. Do the following:
a. Analyse activity and language on the forum over time. Some starting points:
• Describe your data: How active are participants, and are there periods where this increases or decreases? Is there a trend over time?
• Looking at the linguistic variables, do these change over time? Is there a relationship between them?
b. Analyse the language used by groups. Some starting points:
• Threads indicate groups of participants communicating on the same topic. Describe the threads present in your data.
• By analysing the linguistic variables for all or some of the threads, is it possible to see a difference in the language used by these different groups?
• Does the language used within threads change over time?
c. Challenge: Social networks online. We can think of participants communicating on the same thread at the same time (for example during the same month) as forming a social network. When these participants also communicate on other threads, they extend their social network.
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