On an average day, there are about 60 confessions broadcasted on the Tufts Confessions Facebook page. The page receives about 1132 confessions in a given month and since its creation in 2013, it has posted nearly 25,000 anonymous confessions of Tufts students. Clearly, we have a lot to say. But what are we all talking about and is it important?
An interactive chord diagram of the Markov model of Tufts Confessions. In natural language processing, there is literature that suggests that natural language can be modelled by a Markov process - a series of probabilistic transitions between states. This chord diagram attemptes to capture such a process for Tufts Confessions based on textual data.
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