Although I have not finalized the visual aspect of my digital essay yet, I have a good idea about what I want to do and have already started playing around with it. My hope is to compare various different articles and papers that specifically provide an opinion on AI in medicine. I have come across numerous ones that have either supported or been very against AI being used, so my hope is to show these different opinions through text analysis. Something like the voyant software allows me to take any article and run it to find the most common terms used throughout. From there, I can create a word cloud that will display these terms and can be compared to word clouds from other articles or papers. I hope by creating this visual there will be a clear understanding of the views that currently exist surrounding AI in the medical field. I hope to expand further on this in the actual written part of my digital essay, but this will provide viewers with the opportunity to briefly grasp an idea of where I’m going with the topic. I have tried searching for other softwares that do similar things but voyant seems to be the most user-friendly. I can literally paste a URL to the article or copy and paste the article directly in to a text box, and the tool does the rest. I have to play around with it a bit more but I am hoping to be able to specifically target certain terms so that the common but likely irrelevant terms, are left out of the word cloud. I specifically am looking at the trust or lack thereof among physicians in regard to AI so I am hoping to focus in on the terms that will be relevant to this.
