Senior Year Projects

Harry Potter Sentiment Analysis

A text mining project in R applying NRC, Bing, and AFINN sentiment lexicons to the Harry Potter series, analyzing emotional tone across books, chapters, and individual words to identify narrative patterns and conflict-driven language.

Presidential Speech Sentiment Analysis

A sentiment analysis of 227 U.S. presidential State of the Union addresses using R, examining how emotional tone has shifted over time, varied across presidents, and whether party affiliation has a statistically significant effect on speech sentiment.

GDP & PCE OLS Regression Analysis

An OLS regression analysis in R examining the relationship between U.S. GDP and Personal Consumption Expenditure (1970–2025), comparing a linear model against a log-log specification to determine which better captures long-term economic growth patterns.