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-- JosephDung - 18 Feb 2011
Scenarios for Cindy:
FIRST SCENARIO
- One of Cindy's assignments sees her comparing English language texts from a writers in Canada and South Africa
- She needed to understand the type of words writer's from both countries uses to describe feminist issues
- She chose South Africa because of its high incidence of rape and gender violence
- Cindy wants to understand how female activists and the general populace treat that topic
- And also wanted to understand the difference between feminist discourse in a patriarchal culture and that of Canada’s
- Cindy has been able to gather plain text versions of online newspapers, journals, essays, and books from both countries
- She accesses the TAPoR website and logs in her account
- She notices the option of being able to submit files in plain text in a text box and chooses it
- She is interested in the occurrences of the word “sexual violence”, “shame” and “silence”
- She runs the word count tool sequentially against the texts from both countries and sees the results display
- The different results are located in different tabs
- The word counts confirms her suspicion about the attitudes to domestic violence in both societies
- But she needed a greater context on the results she has
- She saves the results
SECOND SCENARIO
- Cindy wants some blob of text from two different websites analyzed
- She thinks it will save her some dear time instead of manually copying and saving plain text
- She is not sure at first if TAPoR has such a tool
- She notices the option to search for tools
- But also notices tool categories and that the HTML/Extraction tools has a collection of tools
- She reads the description of each tool
- She picks a tool which tidies up the html and extracts only the texts from the site she wants to see
- She enters the URLs of the sites she wants analyzed
- She runs the tool and is able to compare the text outputs from both sites
- She compares the text outputs from both sites
- She votes the tool as useful
- She wanted to understand the context in which certain words were mentioned
- She runs a word co-occurrence tool on the same text
- Cindy realizes that she wanted to also have the option to feed the results of the texts into a third tool
- She proceeds to save both the results and the preferred tool
- Cindy emails the results to her inbox and blog
THIRD SCENARIO
- After reading the statistical results of the texts she entered she realized she needed a quick way to reference some of the words in relation to
others
- Thankfully Cindy had saved the results of her last activity on the TAPoR site
- She decides to run a visualization tool on the results to see how they connect with each other in a 2 and 3-dimensional representation
- She once more saves this tool and post the visualization output to her blog
- She logs out
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