Palladio Review Palladio is a digital web tool that creates multidimensional visualizations of data. This tool helps users reveal complex hidden patterns and structures based on textual sources. Users can extract data related to individuals, locations, topics, among other types. In this case, I was able to visualize the different relationships one can establish with…
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…
Exploring Voyant Export Features
Part I. The two most common words in Slave Narrative Corpus: “old” and “come” A. Cirrus Word Cloud of Most Common Words Across Corpus B. Relative Frequencies of the words “old” and “come” in All Documents Part II. Word #1: “old” A. Trend Graph of word “old” Across Corpus B. Trend Graph of word “old”…