The David Rumsey Map Collection has been home to tens of thousands of…
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Search the text in historical maps
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Fonts primer
The Washington Post provides an introduction to fonts with mini-quizzes and straightforward examples.…
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Evolution of George Santos’ biography
George Santos, currently a U.S. representative, seems to lie about his background and…
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Election ad topics
Midterm election day is just about here in the U.S., so the political…
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Word cloud + Streamgraph = WordStream
I hear it all the time from chart purists. “I love the streamgraph!”…
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R graphics get modern text support, with ragg package
Thomas Lin Pedersen announced the ragg package, which makes font usage in R…
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Neural network creates images from text
OpenAI trained a neural network that they call DALL·E with a dataset of…
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Text from press briefings categorized
The New York Times went through the words used during press briefings, pulling…
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Analysis of online sermons
Pew Research Center analyzed online sermons in U.S. searches, taking a closer look…
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From text to paint
Leslie Roberts uses paint to encode text as colors and geometry:
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What Makes People the Most Happy
It’s in the details of 100,000 moments. I analyzed the crowd-sourced corpus to see what brought the most smiles.
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Vector paths of meaning between words and phrases
Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, explored the space…
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Subreddit math with r/The_Donald helps show topic breakdowns
Trevor Martin for FiveThirtyEight used latent semantic analysis to do math with subreddits,…
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Recurring characters in film and the words used to describe them
Stereotropes, made by the Bocoup Data Visualization Team, explores the many tropes in…
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Most decade-specific words in Billboard song titles
David Taylor looked for words in Billboard song titles that appeared during a…
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History through the president’s words →
The Washington Post visualized the use of specific words throughout the years during…
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How to Display Text in R
Text can provide much needed context to traditional visual cues and can be used as a visual cue itself in some cases.
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Extensive timelines of slang for genitalia
The title says it all. Jonathon Green, a slang lexicographer, has two new…
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Yelp maps words used in reviews
We typically think of Yelp reviews as aggregates on a restaurant or business-specific…
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NLTK Book
The Natural Language Toolkit is a Python library that is commonly used to extract data from text. There’s a free, online-accessible book to learn how to use it.