RESEARCH
Creating dynamic visualizations to investigate research questions and to foster student learning outcomes.
Below are select projects from the DSC's research and work. If you are looking for a particular project's information and don't see it, please feel free to contact us via the Contact Page and we will be in touch!
Tracing Early Cannabis Discourse in the United States through Chronicling America
Department: A&S History
Researcher: Isaac Campos, PhD
Dataset and Source: Digital newspaper collections on the use, history, and cultural impact of marijuana/cannabis from the Library of Congress Chronicling America database
Status: In Progress
Goals and/or Outcomes: Use topic modeling and vector space modeling to track the discourse on marijuana/cannabis. Respond to, complicate, and subvert traditional narrative of "Mexican hypothesis" as explanation for the emergence of recreational marijuana use and subsequent demonization of the practice in the United States.
- Scholarly Literature Text Mining