Project created by Josh Pitkofsky, Eddisa Herrera, Jesse Weaver and Matt Godfrey

We were initially interested in Carleton’s investment portfolio and analyzing how it has changed, especially within the first 50 years, but we were unable to obtain the necessary data to do so. We eventually obtained the minutes from the board of trustees meetings from the Carleton archives in a word document and imported it into Voyant, an online suite of analysis and exploration tools for digital texts. We used the word trends tool to graph the usage of words and compare the trends of various related words to find what narratives might have been present within the text. For our final product we created a website that guides people through the trends and stories that we found in the minutes. Check it out!