As one can quickly glean from the above, the evidence is not enough to support the assertions beyond reasonable doubt but they are strong enough that they should not to be ruled out as feelings. These are the areas where we will do the TAG checks. We call our approach the art of unscience. One note: unscience (at least about emails) are supported by hard science. For example, here's a great paper on how email usage reflects attentional differences due both to personal propensities and to work demands and relationships. TIn the process the paper also looks at features of email messages that influenced attention to the message. For example, messages with social content were significantly more likely to receive an immediate response even though social content decreased a respondent’s rated their importance lower than work-related of the messages.
After computing the frequencies we can display them as tag clouds. Tag clouds are a simple and efficient way to visually highlight dominating data patterns. For example, here is a word frequency distribution and a tag cloud of one of our blogs.
During the early stage of the 2016 US election cycle, when the campaigns were focused on (at least the projection of) transparency, policy robustness, and governance competency, a candidate, Jeb Bush, voluntarily released his official emails. Collectively, those emails captured the thoughts and actions of a man who at that point had every chance to become the next US President. Naturally, we wanted to peek into Governor Jeb Bush’s mind or rather analyze his 3.4 GB email text (600 times bigger than the Bible!). Specifically, we wanted to find out what/who influences him the most (here is an article with the gory details including some of the code).
We counted the people and the companies that have the highest email exchanges with the governor. Specifically the ones who the Governor wrote to. And we came up with the “Jeb Influencers”.
If you are interested in generating tag clouds of your own here is a web app that can generate tag clouds from PDFs/Web pages/Text files/Google Docs and even images (for Docs privacy should be set to public). It allows you to filter words and download the cloud. Works best if you paste the text or the link of a google document.
If you are a google doc user there is great Google Docs Add on to generate tag clouds.