Comments on: Visualising key speeches and submissions of Sarath Fonseka http://www.groundviews.org/2009/12/04/visualising-key-speeches-and-submissions-of-sarath-fonseka/ groundviews is an award winning Sri Lankan citizen journalism initiative Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:51:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam http://www.groundviews.org/2009/12/04/visualising-key-speeches-and-submissions-of-sarath-fonseka/comment-page-1/#comment-11658 Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:09:51 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2138#comment-11658 Sanjana, Thanks for another tool to analayse the speech of a person. It will be interesting to look at the speeches of persons in various series of significant time frame, audience, context, medium etc. These are significant independent variables to analyse the content and the persons inner thoughts. Congratulations to CPA and its groundviews staff on its anniversary. I enjoyed the interviews you used to conduct. This is a good time period for you to interview candidates. I like to listen to it without cataloguing the words though! That would be like staying close and counting the pixels of an impressionist's painting. Sanjana,
Thanks for another tool to analayse the speech of a person. It will be interesting to look at the speeches of persons in various series of significant time frame, audience, context, medium etc. These are significant independent variables to analyse the content and the persons inner thoughts.

Congratulations to CPA and its groundviews staff on its anniversary. I enjoyed the interviews you used to conduct. This is a good time period for you to interview candidates. I like to listen to it without cataloguing the words though! That would be like staying close and counting the pixels of an impressionist’s painting.

]]> By: Nibras Bawa http://www.groundviews.org/2009/12/04/visualising-key-speeches-and-submissions-of-sarath-fonseka/comment-page-1/#comment-11623 Nibras Bawa Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:31:25 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2138#comment-11623 Creativity, Weird and Election analysis redefined :-) That being said, interestingly "PEACE" is missing, and that's shocking ! Creativity, Weird and Election analysis redefined :-)
That being said, interestingly “PEACE” is missing, and that’s shocking !

]]> By: Suren Raghavan http://www.groundviews.org/2009/12/04/visualising-key-speeches-and-submissions-of-sarath-fonseka/comment-page-1/#comment-11611 Suren Raghavan Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:06:08 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2138#comment-11611 This is a fresh attempt. Therefore like any new exercise raises some key questions along with the opportunities. 1.Can the complexity of a social construct be captured by visualizing (self arranged) selected text? 2.What are the dependent and independent variables considered in this arrangement? 3.How did/could the author avoid the selection bias? 4.How could one codify (and justify) the size, density and position of each selected word? 5.What are the causal and notational effects of such selections? 6.Should one always in-build a multicollinearity in this type of attempst? Sanjana Good attempt. But I am puzzled with the absence of an explanation for the research design. With your permission, the chapter four of King, Keohane and Verba book gives a good guideline for this type of textualizing (though the book as a whole is very heavy on positivism) Best This is a fresh attempt. Therefore like any new exercise raises some key questions along with the opportunities.

1.Can the complexity of a social construct be captured by visualizing (self arranged) selected text?

2.What are the dependent and independent variables considered in this arrangement?

3.How did/could the author avoid the selection bias?

4.How could one codify (and justify) the size, density and position of each selected word?

5.What are the causal and notational effects of such selections?

6.Should one always in-build a multicollinearity in this type of attempst?

Sanjana
Good attempt. But I am puzzled with the absence of an explanation for the research design. With your permission, the chapter four of King, Keohane and Verba book gives a good guideline for this type of textualizing (though the book as a whole is very heavy on positivism)

Best

]]> By: sumane http://www.groundviews.org/2009/12/04/visualising-key-speeches-and-submissions-of-sarath-fonseka/comment-page-1/#comment-11595 sumane Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:25:13 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2138#comment-11595 From an Interview to OUTLOOKINDIA Q: Why did you fall out with Rajapaksa? Sarath Fonseka: Five days after we won the war, at a meeting of the (president’s) security council, he said he’d stop recruiting new people in the army because it’s too strong and too big, that Sri Lanka would become like Myanmar. Such statements demoralised me. I thought they were disgusting. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?263151 From an Interview to OUTLOOKINDIA

Q: Why did you fall out with Rajapaksa?

Sarath Fonseka: Five days after we won the war, at a meeting of the (president’s) security council, he said he’d stop recruiting new people in the army because it’s too strong and too big, that Sri Lanka would become like Myanmar. Such statements demoralised me. I thought they were disgusting.

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?263151

]]> By: sumane http://www.groundviews.org/2009/12/04/visualising-key-speeches-and-submissions-of-sarath-fonseka/comment-page-1/#comment-11593 sumane Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:58:22 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2138#comment-11593 why don't you organize the same in his sinhala speeches, his speech at the UNP annual conference. a visual image comparison of the speeches by two candidates would be more productive. a great exercise. why don’t you organize the same in his sinhala speeches, his speech at the UNP annual conference. a visual image comparison of the speeches by two candidates would be more productive. a great exercise.

]]> By: Groundviews http://www.groundviews.org/2009/12/04/visualising-key-speeches-and-submissions-of-sarath-fonseka/comment-page-1/#comment-11589 Groundviews Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:18:35 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2138#comment-11589 Sumane, He says it in the singular, not plural. Sanjana Sumane,

He says it in the singular, not plural.

Sanjana

]]> By: sumane http://www.groundviews.org/2009/12/04/visualising-key-speeches-and-submissions-of-sarath-fonseka/comment-page-1/#comment-11583 sumane Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:47:30 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2138#comment-11583 it is great! some big words are of course rhetorical, like people. did he say 'peoples' 'nations'? it is great! some big words are of course rhetorical, like people. did he say ‘peoples’ ‘nations’?

]]> By: Belle http://www.groundviews.org/2009/12/04/visualising-key-speeches-and-submissions-of-sarath-fonseka/comment-page-1/#comment-11575 Belle Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:01:16 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=2138#comment-11575 This is brilliant! The brief semiotic analysis allows you to cut through all the academic crap to get to the heart of the candidate's concerns! Please continue with this! This is brilliant! The brief semiotic analysis allows you to cut through all the academic crap to get to the heart of the candidate’s concerns! Please continue with this!

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