Spanish in Boston: Sociolinguistic Dataset & Analysis

Overview

This project involved designing and analyzing sociolinguistic datasets to investigate variation in Spanish speech. It demonstrates end-to-end experience in data creation, annotation design, quality assurance, and statistical analysis.

My Role

• Designed annotation guidelines for novel linguistic variables
• Managed dataset collection, curation, and QA workflows
• Supervised and trained student annotators
• Led full research lifecycle from data design to statistical modeling

Data & Methods

• Built and analyzed datasets of 70k+ tokens
• Conducted coding, extraction, and statistical analysis in R
• Applied probabilistic modeling to investigate linguistic variation
• Developed workflows for annotation consistency and data quality

Outcome

• Produced structured datasets for analyzing Spanish variation
• Generated findings contributing to dissertation research
• Demonstrated scalable approaches to linguistic data annotation and QA