Meet Our Team Members

Arthur Read (Mallory P.)

Role: (Team Leader) handled web scraping and data visualization, collecting and organizing transcript data while creating visuals to highlight key insights.

D.W. Read (Miracle W.)

Role: worked on the HTML and CSS, designing and structuring the front-end of the website.

Buster Baxter (Megan L.)

Role: worked on XML, Regex, and Cytoscape.

What our Project is About

Our project focuses on an Erie, PA native, Marc Brown, who created the popular PBS television show Arthur. We analyzed Seasons 1–4, specifically the first three episodes of each season. For each episode, we closely reviewed the storyline to understand the main themes, characters, and messages being conveyed. In addition, we examined the most frequently used words throughout the episodes to identify patterns in language and dialogue. Using this data, we created word clouds to visually represent the frequency of words, where larger words indicate higher usage. This helped us better understand which ideas, topics, or characters were emphasized in each episode. Overall, our analysis combined both qualitative insights from the storylines and quantitative data from word frequency to give a more complete picture of the show’s content. Our research question was "How does character evolve over the first four seasons?"