analysis.njk

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title: "Blog Analysis"
header_title: 'Blog <strong>Analysis</strong>'
header_subtitle: "Patterns in a decade of digital scholarship publishing at the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio, 2014–2026"
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permalink: /analysis/
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    <div class="analysis-intro">
        <h2>By the Numbers</h2>
        <p>The LCDSS blog has served as the public record of the Scholars Studio since its founding in 2014. Every post below was cataloged from the blog's RSS feed to produce these visualizations.</p>
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    <div class="stats-row">
        <div class="stat-card">
            <div class="number">230</div>
            <div class="label">Total Blog Posts</div>
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        <div class="stat-card">
            <div class="number">12</div>
            <div class="label">Years Active</div>
        </div>
        <div class="stat-card">
            <div class="number">90+</div>
            <div class="label">Unique Authors</div>
        </div>
        <div class="stat-card">
            <div class="number">35+</div>
            <div class="label">Disciplines Covered</div>
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        <div class="stat-card">
            <div class="number">19.2</div>
            <div class="label">Avg. Posts / Year</div>
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    </div>

    <div class="chart-section">
        <h3>Publications Per Year</h3>
        <p class="description">Annual output of blog posts from the studio's founding in mid-2014 through early 2026. Publication volume peaked in 2017 during a period of rapid program expansion, then stabilized. The 2020 dip coincides with the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
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            <h3>Seasonal Publishing Pattern</h3>
            <p class="description">Post counts aggregated by month across all years. Publishing peaks in the fall and spring semesters, with a pronounced dip during summer months&mdash;reflecting the academic calendar.</p>
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        <div class="chart-section">
            <h3>Top Disciplines</h3>
            <p class="description">The most frequently tagged disciplinary categories across all blog posts.</p>
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    <div class="chart-section">
        <h3>Digital Methods Over Time</h3>
        <p class="description">Tracking the rise and fall of specific digital methods across four eras. Early years focused on text analysis and mapping; VR and 3D entered mid-decade; critical making and machine learning grew in later years.</p>
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            <h3>Author Roles</h3>
            <p class="description">Distribution of blog post authors by role. Graduate students are the primary contributors, reflecting the studio's emphasis on training.</p>
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            <h3>Most Prolific Contributors</h3>
            <p class="description">Authors with the most blog posts over the studio's history.</p>
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    <div class="chart-section">
        <h3>Cumulative Blog Growth</h3>
        <p class="description">Total number of posts published over time, showing steady growth from June 2014 through early 2026.</p>
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    <div class="chart-section">
        <h3>Year-by-Year Breakdown</h3>
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                    <th>Year</th>
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                    <th>Distribution</th>
                    <th>Notable Themes</th>
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    <div class="methodology">
        <h3>Methodology</h3>
        <p>This analysis was compiled by systematically crawling all 26 pages of the LCDSS blog RSS feed at <code>sites.temple.edu/tudsc/feed/</code>, extracting publication dates, authors, and category tags for each post. Category tags were manually grouped into disciplinary fields and digital method clusters. Author roles were inferred from blog category tags (e.g., "Grad Students," "Staff," "Faculty Fellowships"). All charts are rendered client-side using Chart.js. Data was collected in February 2026.</p>
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