Beyond the Word Cloud

In this article, we explore two extremely powerful ways to visualize text: word bubbles and word networks. These two visualizations are replacing word clouds as the defacto text visualization of choice because they are simple to create, understandable, and provide deep and valuable at-a-glance insights. In this post, we will examine how to construct these visualizations from a non-trivial corpus of news and blog RSS feeds. We begin by investigating the importance of text visualization. Next,...