{"id":6042,"date":"2016-02-16T13:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2016-02-16T13:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T13:31:24","slug":"which-words-are-used-to-describe-white-and-black-nfl-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6042","title":{"rendered":"Which Words Are Used To Describe White And Black NFL Prospects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/which-words-are-used-to-describe-white-and-black-nfl-pr-1573683214\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tvcvbghtcp9sgsjaxwyq.jpg\" alt=\"Graphic with words\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to blog this 2014 use of <a href=\"http:\/\/voyant-tools.org\">Voyant Tool<\/a>s for some time. <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/which-words-are-used-to-describe-white-and-black-nfl-pr-1573683214\">Which Words Are Used To Describe White And Black NFL Prospects?<\/a>. Deadspin did a neat project where they gathered pre-drafting scout reports on black and white football players and then analyzed them with Voyant showing how some words are used more for white or black players.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/natural.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6050\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/natural-300x161.png\" alt=\"natural\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/natural-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/natural-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/natural.png 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They then did something really neat &#8211; they created a simple interactive where you could enter words and see the distribution (per 10,000 words) from the two corpora (white players or black players.) This way people could explore words like &#8220;natural&#8221;. The comments are interesting too &#8211; though I&#8217;m not sure everyone understands that the size of the corpora were different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to blog this 2014 use of Voyant Tools for some time. Which Words Are Used To Describe White And Black NFL Prospects?. Deadspin did a neat project where they gathered pre-drafting scout reports on black and white football players and then analyzed them with Voyant showing how some words are used more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Which Words Are Used To Describe White And Black NFL Prospects?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging-culture","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-playful-or-cool","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6051,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}