Comments on: Visualization, Literary Study, and the Survey Class http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/ The Humanities And Technology Camp Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:00:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: THATCamp CHNM 2009 » Blog Archive | Cerisia Cerosia http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/#comment-14634 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:00:14 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=160#comment-14634 […] via THATCamp CHNM 2009 » Blog Archive. […]

]]> By: Gabrielle Dean http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/#comment-324 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:16:29 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=160#comment-324 I came across your post while surfing for something else entirely, but I wanted to mention a now-defunct project with some similarities to yours that you may find interesting–since you asked about precursors. The project (commercial) was called TextArc; it was sort of an early version of cloud-tagging of literary texts, which provided interesting ways of understanding relationships between textual strings and words.

www.textarc.org/

Good luck–would be interested to find out what happens.

]]> By: Jodi Schneider http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/#comment-323 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:41:06 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=160#comment-323 Noticed a new paper on phrase nets for visualizing texts:

Mapping Text with Phrase Nets
Frank van Ham, Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda B. Viégas
IEEE InfoVis 2009

“We present a new technique, the phrase net, for generating visual overviews of unstructured text. A phrase net displays a graph whose nodes are words and whose edges indicate that two words are linked by a user-specified relation. These relations may be defined either at the syntactic or lexical level; different relations often produce very different perspectives on the same text. Taken together, these perspectives often provide an illuminating visual overview of the key concepts and relations in a document or set of documents.”

www.research.ibm.com/visual/papers/phrase-net-rev5.pdf

]]> By: Using Wordle in the classroom (1 of 2) - ProfHacker.com http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/#comment-322 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:58:12 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=160#comment-322 […] See also the Literature (general) page at Many Eyes, featuring 16 members and 54 visualizations. Visualization, Literary Study, and the Survey Class, by Tonya Howe – THATCamp (18 June, 2009) See also Tonya Howe’s page at Many Eyes How […]

]]> By: thowe http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/#comment-321 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:40:09 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=160#comment-321 Jodi– LiveInk is something new for me… I think what they’re doing with re-formatting text can be very useful indeed, and I’ll have to spend more time with it. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: thowe http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/#comment-320 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:17:06 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=160#comment-320 Excellent, David–I’m also looking forward to seeing the installations you’ll be sharing over the weekend. Let’s definitely put our heads together!

]]> By: THATCamp » Blog Archive http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/#comment-319 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:17:13 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=160#comment-319 […] that seems to be on the minds of other THATCampers (at least per their blog posts) such as Tonya Howe and Amanda Watson. How best can we use such visualizations in our research and/or teaching? At what […]

]]> By: Jodi Schneider http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/#comment-318 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:59:03 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=160#comment-318 Tonya,

Earlier this week, I ran into a company (LiveInk) that does what they call Visual-Syntactic Text Formatting.

It seems akin to what you’re doing.

While you want “to visually mark up and weight by color the semantic patterns emerging from small uploaded portions of text”, LiveInk visually reformats texts, adding line variation, and breaking at semantic units. You might be interested in their work, which includes a couple of papers in the reading literature, as well as a product called ClipRead. I’m demoing ClipRead 2.0 (which I don’t know anything about yet since it’s still sitting in my inbox).

Check their homepage, or if you want an online demo, they also have an old online service, to get a sense of what they do: www.liveink.com/LiveInkToGoReadingOnline.htm

]]> By: David Staley http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/18/visualization-literary-study-and-the-survey-class/#comment-317 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:05:43 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=160#comment-317 I would be very interested in discussing this idea with you. I have been thinking about such a project for years!

David J. Staley

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