How to Change how your data is segmented in Voyant Tools

For this assignment, we are tasked to make a blog post tutorial. This tutorial will detail how to change the document segments in Voyant Tools. This was really helpful for me during the midterm and hopefully will also be useful for you, as well!

Step 1: Inspect your HTML file

To find this, you’ll want to right click on your mouse and scroll down until you find “inspect”. Click on that and you should see something like this.

Step 2: Click this icon

This is going to allow you to select specific segments on your file

Step 3: Find the segments in the code

Click on the places where you would like your file to be segmented and search for the code that denotes the segment. For me, this code was “h2”.

Step 4: Change your options in Voyant Tools

Click “Options” in Voyant Tools

Basically, what you end up doing here is putting what your file is segmented by in code, into Voyant Tools so they will segment the file how you want it. For instance, I wanted my file to be segmented each time there was an “h2”, so I typed “h2” in the “group by” section in Voyant tools.

Step 5: Upload your file

Choose and upload your file to Voyant Tools

Step 6: Check out your results/trial and error

This process worked very well for this document, but no two files are the same. If it doesn’t work the way you want it to, go back to the document and continue looking at the code until you can find a solution!

Further Resources

Link to Voyant Tools Help on Trends

Princeton’s Quickstart Guide to Voyant

1 thought on “How to Change how your data is segmented in Voyant Tools

  1. This is something I never even thought about doing. Regardless, I found it helpful as this is something I possibly could have used for past assignments. I also appreciate you using a green arrow on what to click on. If I was to make my tutorial again I may have included a similar thing.

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