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Compared with BYU
The two corpora are kept apart: a conference talk and a campus devotional are different kinds of speech to different audiences. These are the studies that deliberately put them side by side, and the two corpora in numbers.
01// two_corpora.tsx
Two corpora in numbers
| General Conference | BYU Speeches | |
|---|---|---|
| Talks or speeches | 10,804 | 2,546 |
| Years | 1839–2026 | 1891–2026 |
| Words | 23.4M | 8.0M |
| Speakers | 1,063 | 1,083 |
| Scriptures cited | 61,586 | 16,267 |
| Hours of audio | 901 | 1,140 |
| Speakers in the leadership database | 592 | 280 |
02// joint_studies/
Joint studies
Each of these reads both corpora. Everything else on either hub reads one.
~/general-conference/compared-with-byu/topicsOpen
What rose and what faded
Topic models by decade: the doctrines that rose, those that quietly faded, and whether BYU and conference drifted together.
Topic modelStreamgraph
~/general-conference/compared-with-byu/distinctiveOpen
What only Latter-day Saints say
Vocabulary that marks the Latter-day Saint pulpit against papal encyclicals, Spurgeon, Wesley and the presidents' inaugurals, and BYU against conference.
ContrastVocabulary