Trends in the French press, day by day.
Agora is a tool for measuring how the vocabulary of the French press evolves, drawn from a large corpus of articles collected daily. Type one or more words, compare their curves, spot what emerges and what fades.
Explore the curves ↓The project
Some words explode in the press within a few days, then fade; others settle in slowly. This master's thesis sets out to measure those movements of attention and to understand what sets them off.
Supervised by Simon Coste and Benoît de Courson, it splits into two branches. A research paper that statistically detects the activity spikes of a word and classifies their shapes. And Agora, the little sister of Gallicagram, which opens the corpus of 36 news outlets (more to come) to a wider audience.
Explore the corpus
Follow a word through time
Up to four words compared, by month or by year, newspaper by newspaper.
Open the explorer →The words of a period
The most frequent n-grams of a year, a month or a day.
Coming soonWhat rises, what falls
Frequency gains and losses between two periods.
Coming soonThe explorer
Follow words through time.
About the author
A student in a dual master's programme in mathematics and computer science, I discovered a real interest in the media world: I look at the entities that own the media, and at what that means for our society. Agora was born of that reflection.
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