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Presidential Language Notebooks

A collection of notebooks doing data analysis for BuzzFeed stories on stories about presidential speech.

2014-10-presidential-news-conference-pronouns.ipynb

This notebook relies on <a href="https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/whtranscripts">this parsing library</a> for The American Presidency Project to analyze the pronoun usage of presidents during their official news conferences. It is the data behind <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/johntemplon/obamas-pronouns-dont-make-him-narcissist">this BuzzFeed post</a>. A rendered version of this notebook can be <a href="http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/BuzzFeedNews/presidential-language-notebooks/blob/master/2014-10-presidential-news-conference-pronouns.ipynb">found here</a>.

2014-10-presidential-address-pronouns.ipynb

This notebook goes through and checks the number of first-person pronouns (both singular and plural) used during presidential speeches. The JSON data comes <a href="https://github.com/Vocativ-data/presidents_readability">from Vocativ</a>. It is referenced in <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/johntemplon/obamas-pronouns-dont-make-him-narcissist">this BuzzFeed post</a>. A rendered version of this notebook can be <a href="http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/BuzzFeedNews/presidential-language-notebooks/blob/master/2014-10-presidential-address-pronouns.ipynb">found here</a>.

2014-10-folks-okay-and-you-know.ipynb

This notebook goes through each news conference to look for usage of "folks," "okay," and "you know." It relies on <a href="https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/whtranscripts">this parsing library</a> for The American Presidency Project. It is the data behind <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/johntemplon/confirmed-obama-says-the-word-folks-a-lot">this BuzzFeed post</a>. A rendered version of this notebook can be <a href="http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/BuzzFeedNews/presidential-language-notebooks/blob/master/2014-10-folks-okay-and-you-know.ipynb">found here</a>.