Group Members: Ben Lorenz-Meyer, Mary-Kathryn Wert, Daniel Lugo
For this specific data visualization, I used one Carletonian from each year, used Voyant Tools for corpus analysis, and wrote a number (1 being positive, 0 being neutral, and -1 being negative) in a Google Sheet from a subjective analysis of sentiment from mentions of the president that was in office for the year of the Carletonian I analyzed.
I then exported the sheet table as a .csv and used Flourish to make a graph for each of the presidents I analyzed (in this case, Gould-Poskanzer as I didn’t do this type until 1945 and since Byerly is still in office, I thought it would make sense to not include her).
This visualization is playing an explanatory function as it shows clearly (although somewhat subjectively) what people thought of the presidents through the Carletonian.
In terms of style, I didn’t need to do much beyond just setting the graphs up, as the design for Flourish is very clean and the number of Carletonians was small enough that the dates didn’t overlap with each other on the x-axis. I pretty much just left it as is.