What your final deliverable will be

My final project will be a visual essay. I want to feature direct language from the listings, written analysis of the language used, and charts to illustrate trends.

Your (tentative) timeline

What tools you need (things you need to learn, open questions to be resolved, critical decisions you need to make).

The project will require a few tools. The final essay will be developed using simple web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I intend to build the site myself as a continuation of my coding practice from the Creative Coding class last semester. I’ll use Python to gather the text from eBay listings. I’m still considering options for textual analysis. Python has several tools for textual analysis, including the NLTK library. There are also a number of no code solutions, including Voyant.