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"Visualizing English Text" seems more accurate a title. Cute process, but the result is entirely generic.
by 5xz41s0P8T5N 14y ago
"Visualizing English Text" seems more accurate a title. Cute process, but the result is entirely generic.
- ctdonath 14y agoAgreed. It's just applying some standard (albeit amusing) tools to a particular text (amounting to 1 book in 5 parts) and getting results no different from any other text. Word clouds etc have been done, but all still result in pretty much the same sort of textual haze, with nothing inspiring a unique view of a unique tome. Mapping semantic associations would be more interesting. Something akin to http://xkcd.com/657/ http://xkcd.com/657/ generated by the in-text juxtaposition of names & related verbs.