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Visual Communication: Analyzing Text Visually

Using visual communication in scholarly work.

Why do text analysis?

Text analysis creates structured data out of unorganized text. From that data, visual representations can be created to show key information.

Text Analysis Tools

word cloud made up words. Top 12 listed in size from largest to smallest: library, reserves, course, account, college, Centre, research, librarian, collections, purchase, databases, services

Word Cloud created from the Library's website using Voyant.

Corpora

Build your own Corpus

You can build your own Corpus with Ant Conc, a freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.