silenc: Removing the silent letters from a body of text by Nathan Yau.
From the post:
During a two-week visualization course, Momo Miyazaki, Manas Karambelkar, and Kenneth Aleksander Robertsen imagined what a body of text would be without the the silent letters in silenc.
Nathan suggest it isn’t fancy on the analysis side but the views are interesting.
True enough that removing silent letters (once mapped) isn’t difficult, but the results of the technique may be more than just visually interesting.
Usage patterns of words with silent letters would be an interesting question.
Or extending the technique to remove all adjectives from a text (that would shorten ad copy).
“Seeing” text or data from a different or unexpected perspective can lead to new insights. Some useful, some less so.
But it is the job of analysis to sort them out.