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Tools for Exploring Text: Visualization
In the light of my new tool to help navigate the New York Times, I’ve been reading about previous approaches to the problem of making sense of large collections of text. As far as I can tell, the...
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Just because it’s obvious, doesn’t mean it’s useless
Recently, I came across Phrase Nets, a new kind of text visualization, and I thought “wow, this could be really useful to researchers seeking information”. My husband, a researcher seeking information,...
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Digital Library Interfaces That Work
At the Open AMMP meetup yesterday, I encountered some more people who work with digital collections. A common theme (other than complaints about the tightfistedness and lack of public spirit in...
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The Humanities Meet Information Visualization
Attendees listening to Johanna Drucker's keynote at H+Digital at MIT (photo by jeanbaptisteparis) At H+Digital, the visual interpretations conference held at MIT last week, I saw some very cool...
View ArticleMetaOptimize: Q+A for the large data set community
Joseph Turian & co. at MetaOptimize have started a Q+A forum for “data geeks” – people in machine learning or data mining who deal with questions about visualizing, processing, or otherwise making...
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WordSeer: Exploring Language Use in Slave Narratives
More and more source text in the humanities gets digitized every day, making it accessible to large scale computational analysis. Nevertheless, traditional methods of humanistic analysis are based on...
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WordSeer: “love” in Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies
When scholars try to make sense out of large collections of text, they frequently do two things: compare, and collect. They collect samples of “interesting” things, and compare them with each other...
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WordSeer 3.0
We’re thrilled to announce the latest release of WordSeer! After almost a year of improvements, WordSeer is now capable of much more than it ever was. You can now filter, get overviews of a collection,...
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