About the Speeches
In analyzing the speeches, I began to ask questions about where the presidents received their education from, where they went to college, what level of degree they received, what their degree is in. I started my research process of gathering and collecting the necessary information that would allow me to make data visualizations related to overlap in presidential education patterns. The data I extracted after researching the education background of the presidents is below. The excel sheet provides what the dataset looks like that I have created and will use throughout the entirety of my project to generate my data visualizations.
I began examining my data by using Network Analysis and Data Visualization to show the connections between shared colleges of the presidents. I then moved into a visualization of the degrees that were received by the presidents. To incorporate the use of the actual Inaugural Speeches I used text analysis to provide the two sides, formal education versus no formal education, to then examine the content of their speeches. Through the combined use of both the text and education dataset, some distinctions can be made about the level of writing in presidents that have a college education and others that do not. The intentions of my project are to accurately visualize the distinction in educations levels of the presidents and the content and diction of their first Inaugural Address.