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Search the text in historical maps

Maps / David Rumsey, search, text

The David Rumsey Map Collection has been home to tens of thousands of…
Fonts primer

Design / font, readability, text, Washington Post

The Washington Post provides an introduction to fonts with mini-quizzes and straightforward examples.…
Evolution of George Santos’ biography

Infographics / biography, George Santos, text, Washington Post

George Santos, currently a U.S. representative, seems to lie about his background and…
Election ad topics

Statistical Visualization / advertising, election, text, Washington Post

Midterm election day is just about here in the U.S., so the political…
Word cloud + Streamgraph = WordStream

Statistical Visualization / text, time

I hear it all the time from chart purists. “I love the streamgraph!”…
R graphics get modern text support, with ragg package

Coding / R, text, Thomas Lin Pedersen

Thomas Lin Pedersen announced the ragg package, which makes font usage in R…
Neural network creates images from text

Statistics / images, neural network, OpenAI, text

OpenAI trained a neural network that they call DALL·E with a dataset of…
Text from press briefings categorized

Infographics / coronavirus, New York Times, press, text

The New York Times went through the words used during press briefings, pulling…
Analysis of online sermons

Statistics / Pew Research, religion, sermon, text

Pew Research Center analyzed online sermons in U.S. searches, taking a closer look…
From text to paint

Data Art / paint, text

Leslie Roberts uses paint to encode text as colors and geometry:
My paintings…
What Makes People the Most Happy

Data Underload / happiness, text

It’s in the details of 100,000 moments. I analyzed the crowd-sourced corpus to see what brought the most smiles.
Vector paths of meaning between words and phrases

Statistics / Path, text, vector

Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, explored the space…
Subreddit math with r/The_Donald helps show topic breakdowns

Statistics / Reddit, text

Trevor Martin for FiveThirtyEight used latent semantic analysis to do math with subreddits,…
Recurring characters in film and the words used to describe them

Infographics / text, tropes

Stereotropes, made by the Bocoup Data Visualization Team, explores the many tropes in…
Most decade-specific words in Billboard song titles

Statistical Visualization / songs, text

David Taylor looked for words in Billboard song titles that appeared during a…
History through the president’s words →

Infographics / State of the Union, text, Washington Post

The Washington Post visualized the use of specific words throughout the years during…
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How to Display Text in R

Tutorials / R, text

Text can provide much needed context to traditional visual cues and can be used as a visual cue itself in some cases.
Extensive timelines of slang for genitalia

Infographics / penis, text

The title says it all. Jonathon Green, a slang lexicographer, has two new…
Yelp maps words used in reviews

Maps / text, Yelp

We typically think of Yelp reviews as aggregates on a restaurant or business-specific…
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NLTK Book

Software / link, Python, text

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.

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