Stats Homework Manifesto

Author

Kendall Weinberger

Stats Manifesto

library(tidyverse)
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library(tidytext)        # package for text analysis
library(readxl)          # reads excel files, the format I used for the data
manifestos <- read_excel("manifestos.xlsx")
manifestos_words <- manifestos |>
  unnest_tokens(word, text)
  1. Number of words, distinct words, and density of words for the manifesto file.
manifestos_words |>
  group_by(author) |>
  summarize(num_words = n(),
            lex_diversity = n_distinct(word),
            lex_density = lex_diversity/num_words)
# A tibble: 6 × 4
  author       num_words lex_diversity lex_density
  <chr>            <int>         <int>       <dbl>
1 Auvinen           1750           624       0.357
2 Breivik           5186          1457       0.281
3 Cho               1971           608       0.308
4 HarperMercer      1589           580       0.365
5 Rodger            6216          1310       0.211
6 Unabomber         5100          1300       0.255

Graph for the length of words in the manifesto.

manifestos_words |>
  mutate(word_length = nchar(word)) |> 
  ggplot(aes(word_length)) +
  facet_wrap(vars(author), scales = "free_y") +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 1) +
    labs(title = "Word length distrubution for each manifesto")

  1. Most common words used by each manifesto author.
manifestos_words |> 
  group_by(author) |>
  count(word, sort = T) |>
  top_n(5) |>
  ungroup() |> 
  mutate(word = reorder(word, n)) |>
  ggplot(aes(word, n, fill = author)) +
  geom_col(show.legend = FALSE) +
  coord_flip() +
  facet_wrap(~author, scales = "free") +           # creates separate graphs for each author
  scale_fill_viridis_d() +                         # uses a nicer color scheme
  theme_minimal() +                                # removes the gray background
  labs(x = NULL, y = "Most common words")
Selecting by n

Graph of the most common words by author with the removal of stop words.

stop_words |> 
  filter(lexicon == "snowball") -> snowball
manifestos_words |>
  anti_join(snowball) |>
  group_by(author) |>
  count(word, sort = T) |>
  top_n(5) |> 
  ungroup() |> 
  mutate(word = reorder(word, n)) |>
  ggplot(aes(word, n, fill = author)) +
  geom_col(show.legend = FALSE) +
  labs(x = NULL, y = "Most common words") +
  facet_wrap(vars(author), scales = "free") +
  scale_fill_viridis_d() +
  theme_minimal() +
  coord_flip()
Joining with `by = join_by(word)`
Selecting by n

  1. Table & graph of TF - IDF.
manifestos_words |> 
  group_by(author) |>
  count(word, sort = T) 
# A tibble: 5,879 × 3
# Groups:   author [6]
   author    word      n
   <chr>     <chr> <int>
 1 Breivik   the     387
 2 Rodger    the     322
 3 Rodger    i       273
 4 Unabomber the     245
 5 Breivik   of      225
 6 Rodger    my      208
 7 Unabomber of      193
 8 Rodger    to      181
 9 Rodger    a       175
10 Rodger    was     174
# ℹ 5,869 more rows

This is the table.

manifestos_word_counts <- manifestos |>             # This counts each word per author
  unnest_tokens(word, text) |>
  count(author, word, sort = TRUE) 

total_words <- manifestos_word_counts |>               # This counts total words per author
  group_by(author) |> 
  summarize(total = sum(n))

manifestos_word_counts <- left_join(manifestos_word_counts, total_words)    # Joins the two
Joining with `by = join_by(author)`
manifestos_tf_idf <- manifestos_word_counts |>             # Calculates tf-idf
  bind_tf_idf(word, author, n)

manifestos_tf_idf |>                                   # Displays it
  arrange(-tf_idf)                          
# A tibble: 5,879 × 7
   author    word            n total      tf   idf  tf_idf
   <chr>     <chr>       <int> <int>   <dbl> <dbl>   <dbl>
 1 Cho       you           130  1971 0.0660  0.405 0.0267 
 2 Cho       your           34  1971 0.0173  1.10  0.0190 
 3 Cho       fuck           19  1971 0.00964 1.79  0.0173 
 4 Breivik   cultural       42  5186 0.00810 1.79  0.0145 
 5 Breivik   marxism        37  5186 0.00713 1.79  0.0128 
 6 Auvinen   intelligent    10  1750 0.00571 1.79  0.0102 
 7 Auvinen   minded         10  1750 0.00571 1.79  0.0102 
 8 Cho       jesus          18  1971 0.00913 1.10  0.0100 
 9 Unabomber leftist        27  5100 0.00529 1.79  0.00949
10 Breivik   frankfurt      27  5186 0.00521 1.79  0.00933
# ℹ 5,869 more rows

This is the graph.

manifestos_tf_idf |>
  arrange(-tf_idf) |>
  mutate(word = factor(word, levels = rev(unique(word)))) |> 
  group_by(author) |> 
  top_n(5) |> 
  ggplot(aes(word, tf_idf, fill = author)) +
  geom_col(show.legend = FALSE) +
  labs(x = NULL, y = "tf-idf") +
  facet_wrap(~author, scales = "free") +
  theme_minimal() +
  scale_fill_viridis_d() +
  labs(title = "Most distinctive words in each manifesto") +
  coord_flip()
Selecting by tf_idf

  1. A sentiment analysis of the most common positive and negative words in the manifestos.

    bing <- get_sentiments("bing")
    bing
    # A tibble: 6,786 × 2
       word        sentiment
       <chr>       <chr>    
     1 2-faces     negative 
     2 abnormal    negative 
     3 abolish     negative 
     4 abominable  negative 
     5 abominably  negative 
     6 abominate   negative 
     7 abomination negative 
     8 abort       negative 
     9 aborted     negative 
    10 aborts      negative 
    # ℹ 6,776 more rows
manifestos_words |> 
  inner_join(bing) |> 
  count(word, sentiment, sort = TRUE) |>
  group_by(sentiment) |>
  top_n(10) |>
  ungroup() |>
  mutate(word = reorder(word, n)) |>
  ggplot(aes(word, n, fill = sentiment)) +
  geom_col(show.legend = FALSE) +
  facet_wrap(vars(sentiment), scales = "free") +
  labs(y = "Manifestos: Words that contribute the most to each sentiment",
       x = NULL) +
  scale_fill_viridis_d() +
  coord_flip() +
  theme_minimal()
Joining with `by = join_by(word)`
Selecting by n

  1. Tables of the most common bigrams and the most common bigrams with the removal of stop words.
manifestos |>
  unnest_tokens(bigram, text, token = "ngrams", n = 2) |> 
  select(bigram) -> manifestos_bigrams
manifestos_bigrams |>
  count(bigram, sort = T)
# A tibble: 14,954 × 2
   bigram                    n
   <chr>                 <int>
 1 of the                  159
 2 in the                   81
 3 to the                   69
 4 i was                    60
 5 and the                  56
 6 to be                    43
 7 political correctness    37
 8 i had                    34
 9 it is                    34
10 it was                   30
# ℹ 14,944 more rows

This next graph is the removal of stop words.

manifestos_bigrams |> 
  separate(bigram, c("word1", "word2"), sep = " ") |> 
  filter(!word1 %in% snowball$word) |>
  filter(!word2 %in% snowball$word) |> 
  unite(bigram, word1, word2, sep = " ") |>
  count(bigram, sort = T)
# A tibble: 4,115 × 2
   bigram                    n
   <chr>                 <int>
 1 political correctness    37
 2 frankfurt school         22
 3 jesus christ             17
 4 cultural marxism         16
 5 black man                12
 6 human race               12
 7 modern leftism            9
 8 power process             9
 9 surrogate activities      9
10 will never                9
# ℹ 4,105 more rows
  1. First words, I chose the words “we” and “me”.
first_word <- c("we", "me")                                  # these need to be lowercase

manifestos_bigrams |> 
  count(bigram, sort = T) |> 
  separate(bigram, c("word1", "word2"), sep = " ") |>       # separate the two words
  filter(word1 %in% first_word) |>                          # find first words from our list
  count(word1, word2, wt = n, sort = TRUE)
# A tibble: 130 × 3
   word1 word2     n
   <chr> <chr> <int>
 1 me    to       11
 2 we    are      10
 3 we    would     9
 4 we    will      8
 5 me    i         6
 6 we    have      6
 7 we    all       5
 8 we    were      5
 9 me    at        4
10 me    the       4
# ℹ 120 more rows
first_word <- c("we", "me")                                  # these need to be lowercase

manifestos_bigrams |> 
  count(bigram, sort = T) |> 
  separate(bigram, c("word1", "word2"), sep = " ") |>       # separate the two words
  filter(word1 %in% first_word) |>                          # find first words from our list
  count(word1, word2, wt = n, sort = TRUE) |>
  mutate(word2 = factor(word2, levels = rev(unique(word2)))) |>     # put the words in order
  group_by(word1) |> 
  top_n(5) |> 
  ggplot(aes(word2, n, fill = word1)) +                          
  scale_fill_viridis_d() +                                           # set the color palette
  geom_col(show.legend = FALSE) +
  labs(x = NULL, y = NULL, title = "Word following:") +
  facet_wrap(~word1, scales = "free") +
  coord_flip() +
  theme_minimal()
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