##analytics of presidential debates
scraping debate data using beautiful soup from: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/debates.php
Ideas
- wordle (word clouds for each candidate)
- word frequency counts
- collocation frequency counts
- Word2Vec
- speaking time
- interruptions
- applause
- counts of applause
- correlation between applause counts and success
- speaking time / number of applause
- words that
- which final sentences receive applause
- poetry
- haiku
- sonnet
- puns
- ways to break up
- by person
- by party
- people who succeed vs. drop out
- women vs. men
- other data to use in conjunction (polling stats, etc)
Future Research
- how often do they answer the question