Topic Breakdown

The Jane Addams Papers Project uses subject tags to describe people -- including the occupations and interests and the geographic countries they lived in. To understand the demographics of Addams'associates more precisely, a word cloud of all the tags involving individual people’s data was created. The following word cloud depicts information about all the tags encoded in people’s data.  

The tag ranges from “Woman Suffrage” -- obviously so -- to Labor, Civil Rights, Social Work, Child Labor, Progressive Party, Birth Control, Religion, and so on. All of these tags relate to Jane Addams directly or indirectly. One of the discrepancies seen on this word cloud is the tag “Peace Woman” and “Suffrage Women” which is a discrepancy resulting from the creation of the word cloud. In this case, the word cloud generator picks up two adjacent words as a singular phrase. Disregarding minor inconsistencies, this is an interesting way to visualize the occurrence of all the other topics voiced in documents involving individual people related to the woman’s suffrage movement.