The data that I’m gathering is song lyrics, specifically those of all of Taylor Swift’s albums. So far, this process has not been too difficult, because I was able to find a document with all of the song lyrics organized by album. So, all I had to do with these is copy and paste the lyrics over to new documents such that each album has its own document. From here, I just used the “find and replace” option on google docs to delete “Taylor’s Version” and “From the Vault” from the song titles, since these words are not part of the themes of the album, they are just further describing the title. I also have found downloadable files of each specific song’s lyrics, organized by album. So, I don’t have to do any cleaning on these which is super nice. As for my general observations, I have noticed that there are some albums that are notably longer than others, which might impact my results just because there is so much more text in albums such as Red Taylor’s Version, which has a ton of tracks, including one that is ten minutes long. I will keep this in mind when doing my analysis. The only remaining data to collect is to finish putting all of the lyrics on their respectable google docs, I have around three documents remaining. Also, I need to decide upon which albums I am going to use the downloadable files for. I am going to use these files to do a song by song analysis on a few of the albums, I just need to decide which albums will work best for this type of analysis. I am going to finish the documents tonight, and then with the work time provided next class I will decide upon which albums to use for the song by song analysis.
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