...There was a Text Analysis and Data Visualization assignment that had to be done!

For my text analysis assignment I decided to research the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. I chose this book because although I have never read it I have always enjoyed the Disney movie. By using text analysis and tools such as wordle and voyeurtools I can see the similarities and differences between the book and the classic movie.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic book that tells the story about a young girl who finds herself in a magical world that makes no sense! Alice finds herself getting confused constantly throughout the story and get quite upset and emotional when she thinks she will never find her way home. With the help of some very odd characters and after a series of trials and errors she continues to find herself lost in Wonderland. Although the reader would like to think that Alice could find her way out of Wonderland this is not what ends up happening. Once Alice finds herself in the most trouble in this fantasy land she gets woken up out of her dream! Yes, the whole story was a dream. Knowing this, the reader can either feel comfort that Alice is out of Wonderland, or discomfort for the question of what would've happened if she had stayed asleep?

The first type of analysis I did was the textual analysis. I distracted the metadata from the project Gutenberg site for this information.

Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher:
       Original - Macmillan
       Online - Project Gutenberg
Date of Creation:
       Original - 26 November, 1865
       Online - 25 June, 2008
Web Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11/11-h/11-h.htm
Language: English
Format: HTML
Media Type: Text File
Subject: Fiction, Fantasy
Category: Literature
Copyright Status: Public Domain

For the second part of the assignment I used wordle and voyeurtools to compare the script from the Disney movie to the book that Lewis Carroll wrote to see the similarities and differences between the two.

First is the wordle from the book by Lewis Carroll. I used the book that I found off project Gutenberg and put it right into the wordle creation spot. I did not take out any words so these are all of the words in the book with the highest frequencies being the largest and the smaller frequency words being the smaller ones. The highest frequency word used is the word "the" being used in the book 1522 times. The name "Alice" came up quite a few times (386 times to be exact) because most of the characters throughout the story say her name multiple times possibly because throughout the book, the characters tend to constantly say Alice's name to get her attention as well as confuse and annoy her. The highest content word is the word "little" which is used 125 times. I am not entirely sure why the word "little" is used so often, but it is possibly the fact that at one point in the movie and book Alice gets shrunk to the size of small flowers and stays that size for at least half of the book and movie.There are 2,674 unique words (words used only once) and 26,541 words used over all.
Some changes I made to the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland book wordle:
Colour: from "firenze" to "Blue meets Orange"
Layout: from "Mostly Verticle" to "Half and Half"
Font: Goudy Bookletter 1911

The changes I made to the wordle were made because I thought the original colour used (firenze) was too subtle. I changed it to blue meets orange because those are colours that don't usually go together. In the movie and book a lot of the characters are described as out of the ordinary and unusual; therefore, the colour that I picked fits with how the characters and most of the book is described, odd and mismatched, yet fitting well together. 

Nest is the script from the the movie "Alice in Wonderland" directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. There are quite a few differences between the script for the movie and the actual book. As you can see from the wordles, the only similarity is that the name "Alice" is used the most.

The highest content words are mostly character names. The word "mad" was used 70 times, being the highest content word with close seconds being  "hatter" (used 65 times) "rabbit" (used 61 times) and "queen" (used 60 times). These names are all characters that are constantly mentioned throughout the movie and book; the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, and the Red Queen. My guess for this massive change in words is that because this script is meant for children. It is a Disney movie, and kids don't need the all the descriptions of every detail like an adult would like to see. Because of this difference, the more descriptive words that are used in the book such as "little" are taken out of the script to make it more straight forward and less complicated for the younger viewers of this movie. Another reason why these wordles are so different is because in the book there are significantly more words used than there are in the movie. There are 2,674 unique words in the book and only 1,296 unique words in the movie. This would have a major effect on the wordles because one would be more crowded than the other.

Some changes I made to the "Alice in Wonderland" (script) worlde:

Colour: from "Blue meets Orange" to "Indian Earthy"

Layout: from "Half and Half" to "Mostly Horizontal"

Font: "Teen"

I changed the colour because I used "blue meets orange" for the book's wordle. Also, the "indian earthy" reminds me of quite a few of the colours that I saw in the movie. The movie was quite dark because it is set mostly in a forest, and the purple colour reminds me of the Cheshire cat that is seen throughout the movie.