Project1_SpeechesPOTUS_STATGR5243

The main point of this project is to analyze the evolution of the complexity in language of American Presidents through their first step as a fresh President: the Presidential Inaugural Speech.

Step 1 - Read in the speeches for Corpus Study

Step 2 - Text processing

Step 3 - Read the speeches for general analysis

Step 4 - Interactive visualize important words in individual speeches (Shiny app)

Step 5 - Computation of Readability Index

Step 6 - Visualization of data

Step 7 - Interactive Visualization of the evolution of the Readability Index across American Inaugural Speeches history (Shiny app)

Step 8 - Topic modelling as an alternative to regression