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The Arts Engagement Project at
The University of Michigan

  • The Arts Engagement Project
  • Project Overview
    • Project Background
    • Study Design
      • Study Logistics
      • Survey Design
      • Data Collection
      • Data Description
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  • Insights
    • Insights Overview
    • Descriptive Statistics
    • Learning Outcomes
    • Barriers to Involvement
      • Barriers Topic Tree
      • Topic Descriptions
      • Barriers Underlying Factors
    • Personal Growth
      • Growth Topic Tree
      • Self-Fulfillment
      • Principal Components Results Summary
    • Emotional Impact
      • Impacts Topic Tree
      • Summary of Topics
      • Principal Components Results Summary
    • Developmental Role
      • Development Topic Tree
      • Social Identity
    • College Experience
      • Experience Topic Tree
      • Experience Topic Descriptions
    • Transformative Experiences
  • Analyses
    • Methods Overview
    • Topic Modeling and Interpretation
    • Structural Topic Model Workflow
    • Dictionaries of Language Patterns
    • Principal Components Analysis
    • Analysis of Principal Components x Demographic Factors

Topic Tree

This tree map shows the distribution of topics among the responses to the question, “What role did the arts play in your development as a person, friend, colleague, and student during college?”. It contains 10 topics, and 812 responses. The topics identified are located at the ends of the braches, also called leaf nodes, and the branching nodes are topic clusters, or parent nodes. The numbers are the total prevalence (0-100%) of the topic or cluster as a percentage all the documents/responses.

This is a structural topic model visualization, with hierarchical topic clusters. Topic branches that are more likely to co-occur together in a single response are clustered together since each response often contains a mixture of multiple topics. We inferred the topic for each of the parent nodes using the leaf node topics and working towards the base of the tree from right to left. Category descriptions become more general towards the base of the tree and more specific towards the leaves. Prevalence is also reflected in the visual weight of the branches helping show the relative proportion of topics. It is important to keep in mind too that the proportions of topics may be different for different groups, but that the overall types are topics may be more stable across sampled populations. The leaf node topic prevalences are directly estimated, while the parent topic prevalences are a summation of their children/leaf topics. Because of rounding, the total topic prevalance may add up to slightly more than 100%.

Click on any node on the tree below for more information. Each node contains descriptions of each topic, key words for interpreting the topic, and representative responses that were used to interpret each topic’s identity and description.

Topic Tree — The Arts Engagement Project at The University of Michigan

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