Nebraska Digital Workshop Sample Page

"Textmining, Visualizations, and 'Queer Things Like Us'" Sample Page

Tanya Clement, University of Maryland, College Park

Relevant links:

The Monk Project
FeatureLens [Please go to the live demo, click on "load," and choose "The Making of Americans".]
SocialAction
WordHoard-Wordle-PosViz Visual Comparisons for Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans [please open in Internet Explorer].
Statistical data on The Making of Americans compared with other nineteenth and early twentieth century novels.

FeatureLens

Figure 1

A: sorting patterns by length, frequency, and trends; B: choosing particular patterns for comparison; C: charting patterns across the text at the chapter level and paragraph level; D: seeing patterns in context .

SocialAction

Figure 2

This visualization shows the characters from The Making of Americans. The edges are determined by co-location in paragraphs.

SocialAction

Figure 3

This visualization shows the same data as Figure 2, but from a different veiwpoint. Here, the larger "globs" help the user differentiate between large clusters.