Voyant, kepler.gl, and Palladio: A Tale of Three Visualization Tools

Introduction There are web-based digital platforms that empower users to upload data and explore it with the generation of visualizations. These are free of charge and fairly easy to use. Tools like Voyant, kepler.gl, and Palladio help examine digital sources in very distinct fashions. Voyant, for instance, focuses on corpus analysis, kepler.gl will do mapping…

Reflections on the Process of Working with Voyant and User Guide

My Reflection of Voyant Voyant is a text visualization project that facilitated me the analysis of content appearing in the WPA Slave Narratives Project that took place in the late 30s. It is a virtual environment that allowed me to engage in the reading and analysis of digital texts collected and edited during the WPA…

WPA Word Clouds Comparisons: Corpus, Georgia, Kansas, and Mississippi

The Corpus word cloud: The word cloud generated for the corpus reflects the use of dialectical language among interviewees’ transcripts. Orality seems to play an integral role of the speaker, and there is a heavy of localisms such as “dey”, “dat”, “dem”, “em”, “wuz”, and “wid” among others in the word cloud. This visualization displays…