Potential Applications

These charts produced through Project Arclight do exhibit increased usage of the term "shellshock" and "shell-shock," increasing after the First World War, continuing after the war, and then tapering off, before picking up again both during and after the Second World War- at least, within the 2 million page collection of the Media History Digital Library.

However, there is not enough information to make a persuasive argument for "shell-shock" increasing over "shellshock," since I note here, some of these nodes treat them as the same term, without distinguishing between them.

While I had discussed text modelling in other contexts and classes, it is quite different to theoretically imagine a process, versus taking the steps to carry it out myself. Through this process, I was able to quickly find sources which named shellshock on a timeline which traced the path of multiple world wars.

By testing built-in textual analysis tools like Project Arclight, it is possible to find further sources on popular culture and shellshock, along a timeline which corrolates with the First World War, its aftermath through the 1930s, and the start of the Second World War.