Publications by Holly Stiltner

Beyond the Bars: A Lyrical Analysis of Country Music Sub-Genres

14.05.2024

Table of contents Introduction Data Acquisition Most Popular Words Word Clouds Most Negative Words Most Positive Words Flesch Kincaid Grade Level Lexicons Bi-Grams Conclusion Beyond the Bars: A Lyrical Analysis of Country Music Sub-Genres Author Holly Stiltner Introduction “I’ll listen to anything…except country” is a phrase said time...

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Beyond the Bars: A Lyrical Analysis of Country Music

12.05.2024

Table of contents Introduction Data Acquisition Most Popular Words Word Clouds Most Negative Words Most Positive Words Flesch Kincaid Grade Level Lexicons Bi-Grams Conclusion Beyond the Bars: A Lyrical Analysis of Country Music Author Holly Stiltner Introduction “I’ll listen to anything…except country” is a phrase said time and time a...

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Greek God and Goddess Names with Reference to Percy Jackson

21.09.2022

I am looking at the frequency of Greek God and Goddess’ names. I am going to start broad and eventually work my way down to a short list of names. I plan to first visualize the data by looking at the data set by showing each name with its corresponding year and totals. I then want to look at the top six names and break them down by gender. ...

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Comparing Morgan Wallen and Zach Bryan: Two Artists on the Opposite Ends of the Country Music Spectrum.

21.10.2022

When people think of country music, they often think of country radio. There are stereotypes that go along with this that deter a lot of people from the genre of country music all together. One of the biggest stereotypes is that country music is only about trucks, beer, and girls. While this may be true for some artists, I want to show the ra...

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2020 Abortion Rates and Presidential Election Results

23.11.2022

Abortion has been a talked about issue for quite some time now, even more so after “Roe v. Wade” was overturned this past June. This means that abortion is no longer a federal constitutional right. The issue of abortion is now up to each individual state. I am curious to see if there is a correlation between number of abortions per state ...

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An Analysis of Pitchfork Reviews by Genre and Year

08.12.2022

Pitchfork is a website that writes reviews on all genres of music. They originated in the summer of 1996. After 26 years, they are still keeping up with music trends and releasing reviews on new music. I find this website very interesting, as they have a wide range of genres that they review. In this analysis, I will mainly focus on five genr...

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