Environmental and economic classification of words used in news articles about water bottling facilities in the U.S. from 1990 to 2024
July 16, 2025
This dataset contains a list of words that occurred at least 100 times from a news media search in LexisNexis, a large news archive database, about water bottling facilities in the U.S. from 1990 to 2024. Each word listed was classified as typically discussed in the context of the environment, the economy, both or neither. The data was used to conduct natural language processing lexicon-based classification analysis.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Title | Environmental and economic classification of words used in news articles about water bottling facilities in the U.S. from 1990 to 2024 |
| DOI | 10.5066/P14MSIA2 |
| Authors | Alisha Y Chan, Catherine A Christenson |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS) |
| USGS Organization | Upper Midwest Water Science Center - Madison, WI, Office |
| Rights | This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal |
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