Artificial Intelligence and The Florida Alligator

University newspapers offer unmediated insight into student life and the twentieth century United States. The University of Florida Digital Collections contains over ten thousand editions of UF’s student-run newspaper, The Florida Alligator and The Independent Florida Alligator. These digitized collections provide an opportunity for a digital humanities intervention, employing the historian’s “macroscope” to distill over a century of student newspapers into quantitative trends useful for exploratory research and on its own terms.

Project Responsibilities

Responsibilities in this project include creating the python code, working with the BERT language model, conducting a literature review, and writing analysis.