Word Tree by Jason Davies.
From the webpage:
The Word Tree visualisation technique was invented by the incredible duo Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas in 2007. Read their paper for the full details.
Be sure to also check out various text analysis projects by Santiago Ortiz
Created by Jason Davies. Thanks to Mike Bostock for comments and suggestions. .
This is excellent!
I pasted in the URL from a specification I am reviewing and got this result:
I then changed the focus to “server” and had this result:
Granted I need to play with it a good bit more but not bad for throwing a URL at the page.
I started to say this probably won’t work across multiple texts, in order to check consistency of the documents.
But, I already have text versions of the files with various formatting and boilerplate stripped out. I could just cat all the files together and then run word tree on the resulting file.
Would make checking for consistency a lot easier. True, tracking down the inconsistencies will be a pain but that’s going to be true in any event.
Not feasible to do it manually with 600+ pages of text spread over twelve (12) documents. Well, could if I were in a monastery and had several months to complete the task. 😉
This also looks like a great data exploration tool for topic map authoring as well.
I first saw this in a tweet by Elena Glassman.