Geoff Ford Political Science x Digital Methods

(In development) Software: WART (Wayback As Research Tool)

WART is a set of notebooks I will be releasing as part of the Mapping LAWS project. We have used this to collect archived versions of websites from the Wayback machine. In some cases we’ve been able to gather over 20 years of comparable texts (e.g. speeches). The notebooks include functionality to search and visualise changes in textual features over time.

Skills & Tools: Python; Data visualisation; Wayback’s API.