via Madeleine Sorapure (UCSB)
Text Visualization Resources
text editors
- Brackets
- BBEdit: click on the Download button underneath the green Buy BBEdit Now button; BBEdit is free, although after 30 days some advanced features are turned off
convert files to .txt
- Zamzar
- PDF to Text
- or just search “doc to text” or “convert to txt”
how to take a screenshot
on a Mac- hold down Command – Shift – 3 (for the entire screen)
- hold down Command – Shift – 4 (to draw a selection on the screen)
- press the Print Screen button on your keyboard; a screenshot of the entire screen will be put on the clipboard; open Photoshop or another photo editing program; paste (Control – V, or Edit > Paste) the clipboard contents onto the canvas
sentence length
- HemingwayApp: click on Write to add your own text. The app provides a Readability grade, word count, and colorized commentary and advice on sentence length and other issues.
- The Writer’s Diet (thanks, Daniel Liddle)
- See also the discussion of colorizing sentence length using CSS and Javascript.
parts of speech
- Parts-of-speech.info is a very easy, colorful parts-of-speech visualizer, one or several sentences at a time.
- Stanford log-linear part-of-speech tagger is a more complex command-line app.
syntax
- Word tree, created by Jason Davies, allows you to enter text and create word trees with different root words.
- Google Charts also provides code you can use to make a word tree in Javascript.
tone/sentiment
- Tone Analyzer: text that you upload is tagged and colorized for seven “tones”. Developed by IBM, the code is available on Github and there’s a very detailed tutorial for installing and configuring Tone Analyzer.
- Daniel Soper’s super simple Free Sentiment Analyzer gives a -100 to 100 negative/positive rating to text that you upload.
- The Natural Language Processing group at Stanford developed a Sentiment Analysis app
semantic network
- Visual Thesaurus provides a network diagram for words with related meanings.
- Docuburst draws on the WordNet lexical database to visualize the content of a document around root words. There’s a live demo where you can upload text and select root words for the visualization.
collections of text visualization tools
- Databasic.io is a very easy set of tools and resources to analyze and visualize data of various types.
- WordCounter creates word clouds with lists of top words, bigram, trigram.
- SameDiff allows you to compare two documents for shared and unique words.
- Google Cloud Natural Language: upload text and analyze it for entity extraction, sentiment analysis, syntax (sentence diagramming, parts of speech), and content category.
- AntConc : a corpus analysis toolkit that you can download to your desktop (thanks, Eric)
- Voyant, developed by DH scholars Stefan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell, lets you upload individual documents or collections of documents, and analyze/visualize them in a variety of ways. The tools here are especially good for comparisons across documents. There’s also an extremely helpful guide to using Voyant.
text collections
- sample txt files for this class
- Project Gutenberg, Top 100 E-Books (click on the book and then on Plain Text UTF-8)
- The American Presidency Project: an excellent database compiled by UCSB professors John Wooley and Gerhard Peters, contains links to inaugural addresses, state of the union addresses, and a host of other presidential communications
- U.S. National Archives and Government Documents
- Pew Research Center: many reports on lots of topics in PDF format
- Music Lyrics Database
- twdocs: you can save Twitter tweets, favorites, mentions, followers, friends, direct messages and search results in a variety of file formats (including .txt)
text visualizations
- Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible
- Robots Reading Vogue: not text but still awesome
the look of text
- Textify.it : create an image made of text (or other elements). Be sure to upload a large image.
- Tagxedo: create image-based word clouds out of text that you upload. Tagxedo uses Silverlight, doesn’t work on Chrome, and may not work on other browsers either. But it’s worth trying.
punctuation
- posters of punctuation in famous novels
- Adam Calhoun’s punctuation images and code on Github
collections
data sets
- Data.gov: repository for the US government’s open data
- Google public data
- Pew Research Center downloadable datasets
- Amazon Web Services public datasets
stock & copyright-friendly images
- Creative Commons Search
- Metropolitan Museum of Art collection of 400,000 high resolution images, free to download and use
- stock.xchng
- 500px
- Shutterstock
- iStock Photo
- Google Material Icons: 750 free icons for use in infographics; preview here, download here
design
- Clean Up Your Mess: A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone
- 35 books every designer should read, by Fast Company
- Remove to improve (cleaning up a graphic)
color
- color: “Color Theory 101″ by James George
- Paletton: great tool to see color combinations for website design; check out the “color blind” option to see how different color combos look to people with various kinds of color blindness
- Adobe Color CC: by Adobe, you can explore and create color themes/palettes and easily import them into Illustrator
- 4 Tools to Pick Your Chart Colors
writing
- Grammar Girl: on Semicolons; on Colons; on Dashes, Parentheses, and Commas; on Dashes, Colons, and Commas
- How to use a semicolon: The most feared punctuation on earth, from The Oatmeal
- Style Academy: video tutorials and exercises on different aspects of writing style, with a focus on sentence combining and sentence imitation
- 20 Most Common Errors, from The Everyday Writer, published by Bedford St. Martins
- Grammar Slam, by WWE wrestler CM Punk
- The Paramedic Method, developed by Richard Lanham
- Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it, by Farhad Manjoo at Slate
typography
- Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick
- The 10 Commandments of Typography
- KernType: a kerning game where you can compare your kerns to a typographer’s solution
- I Shot the Serif: test your knowledge of serif and sans-serif fonts
- Type Connection: “a typographic dating game”
- The Power of Typography, TED Talk by Mia Cinelli
- Type Tasting, by Sarah Hyndman
Dear Data Resources
- Dear-Data.com (and Dear-Data The Project)
- Dear Data has been acquired by MOMA
- Interview with Giorgia and Stefanie, at Forth
videos
- Big Bang Data (3:18)
- Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec – Dear Data: A friendship in data, drawing and postcards (23:10)
- How we can find ourselves in data: (11:13) Georgia Lupi: some commentary on the Dear Data project along with some more general commentary on contemporary uses of data
- Dear Data Two presentation (1:05:37), by Jeffrey Shaffer and Andy Kriebel: it’s an hour, and they focus on using Tableau and other apps for self-tracking
related projects
- Dear Data Two, by Jeffrey Shaffer and Andy Kriebel
- Dear Data, by Shi Hui
- We asked you to visualize your podcast listening and wow did you deliver, by FiveThirtyEight, a project inspired by Dear Data
- Quantified Self
readings
- “William James on attention, multitasking, and the habit of mind that sets geniuses apart,” by Maria Popova
- “Understanding data – context,” by Nathan Yau
- Gary Wolf, “The Data-Driven Life” (2010) (and his TED talk on Quantified Self)
- Melanie Swan, The Quantified Self (2013)
apps and software to help you collect (and visualize) personal data
- How to track a life: Ultimate guide of tools, apps, and techniques for self-tracking, by Mark Koester: has links to other helpful resources at Koester’s site, including How to track your sleep and the Data-driven weekly review
- Nomie: general life/mood tracker
- HabitBull: track habits
- Habitica: gamifies habit tracking
- Todoist: track tasks
- Rescue Time: track your internet activity (the free version is RescueTime Lite)
- Lightbeam add-on for Firefox that shows third-party sites that track your online activities
personal infographic examples
- personal infographic projects done by students in previous classes
- Feltron.com, and check out this video on Felton–“A Life in Data”–by the New York Times, and this one–“Life as Annual Report”–in Slate magazine, and this longer presentation–A Man of Few Words, but many numbers–from the 2012 EyeO Festival
- 20 Amazing Personal Infographics, by Inspired Magazine
- From Paint to Pixels: How Data Became a New Medium
general information visualization examples
- NameVoyager
- Aaron Koblin’s fabulous Johnny Cash Project and Bicycle Built for Two Thousand
- Dollar Street
- Gapminder
- How to visualize recurring patterns, Nathan Yau
- A Century of global warming in just 35 seconds, from Scientific American
from the New York Times Interactive department
- Where we came from and were we went, state by state
- Mapping the Human Diseasome
- How Different Groups Spend Their Day
- Inaugural Words
- and more, by searching the NY Times site for interactive, multimedia
personal & general infovis collections
- Flowing Data
- Information is Beautiful
- Good Magazine Infographics
- resources related to new media and journalism (compiled by Nancy Hubbard)
- Quantified Self
more info on infographics
- Seeing Data
- Hans Rosling’s talk about social data and Gapminder
- The United States of Metrics (5/18/14)
- The World Bank DataBank
- Lena Groeger at ProPublica
Public Service Announcement Resources
- “A History of PSAs,” by Bill Goodwill (see also PSA Research Center)
- Public Service Announcement, on Wikipedia
- PSA reflection guidelines
- diction handout
examples
Photoshop/photo editing tutorials
- photo editing tutorial #1: interface and layers
- photo editing tutorial #2: text and masking
- photo editing tutorial #3: selection and combining
Photoshop alternatives
- Adobe Creative Cloud–students/teachers plan for $20 a month (with a one-year subscription)
- GIMP for PC and GIMP for Mac OSX free, open-source, desktop photo editing program; download GIMP and put it in your Applications folder. You might have to go into your Security settings to open GIMP.
- Affinity: costs $49.99; available for both Windows and Mac.
- Pixlr: free online photo editing program; open Pixlr Editor.
brushes, shapes, patterns, etc.
- MyPhotoshopBrushes.com: links to free brushes, patterns, shapes, and gradients, along with tutorials on how to create these yourself
- Brusheezy.com: brushes, patterns, textures, and other goodies
- 60 best free Photoshop brushes, from Creative Bloq
- For GIMP users: How to install and use Photoshop brushes in GIMP
- What you can do with the fabulous Photoshop skills you’ll acquire, or aspire to be James Fridman
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