{"id":77,"date":"2019-11-09T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T20:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/?p=77"},"modified":"2021-11-30T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T13:52:11","slug":"ontarios-sma2s-automated-textual-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/2019\/ontarios-sma2s-automated-textual-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario&#8217;s SMA2&#8217;s Automated Textual Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/\">Voyant Tools<\/a> for web-based text reading and analysis.   If you are looking for a <a href=\"https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/?corpus=2b59c3deea967f28d87be85e978c549b&amp;panels=cirrus,reader,trends,documents,contexts\">search engine for SMA2, this is it<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 800px;\" src=\"\/\/voyant-tools.org\/?panels=cirrus%2Creader%2Ctrends%2Cdocuments%2Ccontexts&amp;corpus=2b59c3deea967f28d87be85e978c549b\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/?corpus=2b59c3deea967f28d87be85e978c549b&amp;panels=cirrus,reader,trends,documents,contexts\">Open in a new tab<\/a> The corpus includes all 21 University 2017-2020 SMAs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are looking for a search engine for SMA2, this is it.  You can search\/filter the SMAs by a key term the boxes in the lower portion of the Documents or Context panel.  Searching &#8220;International&#8221; in the context panel yields some interesting results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I further broke them down to look at these individual sections: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Vision, Mission and Mandate <\/li><li>Student Experience<\/li><li>Innovation in Teaching and Learning Excellence <\/li><li>Access and Equity <\/li><li>Research Excellence<\/li><li>Impact Innovation, Economic Development and Community Engagement <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, I looked at each sections&#8217; length in the number of words used to describe it and its relative size to the whole document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"933\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/app.powerbi.com\/view?r=eyJrIjoiMmQ2Y2M2ZGYtMzE3Ni00OGNhLThjYjAtMzkzMzBkNDhkMmQ3IiwidCI6Ijc2YWUxMTE1LTFlZmMtNGFmMi1hNTM2LWUyYjI0NDNhZjFhMCIsImMiOjN9\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reviewing the lengths you can see that some universities wrote much more than others.  Most sections are of similar proportions to the whole document, however, there are exceptions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>OCADu and Ryerson have larger Vission, Mission, Mandate sections<\/li><li>The Universit\u00e9 de Hearst&#8217;s Innovation in Teaching and Learning sections<\/li><li>There is also a lot of variation in the number of sub-sections, but that appears to only indicate a difference in structure, not amount or type of content.  The only trend being there are more examples given in sections with more words and more sections.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-3\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-3\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">University<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Number of words WITH boilerplate<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Number of words WITHOUT boilerplate<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">University of Windsor<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">15956<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">16685<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Lakehead University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">15721<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">16435<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">York University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">11922<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">12648<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Carleton University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">11151<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">11874<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">University of Ottawa<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">10686<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">11416<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Queen's University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">10071<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">10695<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">University of Guelph<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">9869<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">10590<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Trent University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">9208<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">9935<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Western University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">9189<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">9893<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Wilfrid Laurier University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">8998<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">9706<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">University of Waterloo<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">8966<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">9696<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Algoma University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">8841<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">9555<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Ryerson University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">8853<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">9410<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Brock University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">8037<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">8812<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Laurentian University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">7494<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">8219<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Universit\u00e9 de Hearst<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">7438<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">8148<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-18\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">University of Ontario Institute of Technology<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">7408<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">8128<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-19\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Nipissing University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">7367<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">8094<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-20\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">OCADu<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">7154<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">7881<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-21\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">McMaster University<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">6445<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">7173<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-22\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">University of Toronto<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">6358<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">7093<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-3 from cache -->\n\n\n\n<p>Read how the themes in the text differentiate, or do not differentiate, each university in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/2020\/how-universities-describe-themselves-in-sma2\/\">How Universities Describe Themselves in SMA2<\/a> post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of Voyant Tools for web-based text reading and analysis. If you are looking for a search engine for SMA2, this is it. Open in a new tab The corpus includes all 21 University 2017-2020 SMAs. If you are looking for a search engine for SMA2, this is it. 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