Thursday, October 14, 2010

...We Worked in a Group

I was in the group called team Helo. We chose "Many Eyes" because that was our only option. We decided to show the class the data tree because it was the most straight forward one to demonstrating this complicated site.
The tools that our group used were in the data tree. We looked up Denmark which gave us a massive tree to look at. From there we could click on different words to narrow down the search. I personally found that this website was a bit much for any information that I would be looking for. It is a little too specific and therefore makes it confusing for me to navigate around to the topic I would be looking for. Because the information you get is so specific it is very difficult to find exactly what you are looking for. There is so much information that the data tree is almost too cluttered.
I think all of the different kinda of analysis on this site are very useful. They all make it very clear at which word or number is the biggest, or most used. I think the least helpful was the bubble graph because although it was clear which bubble is the biggest, it is difficult to tell where the mid sized bubbles fit in. The most useful graph I would say would be the data tree because it makes it very clear where the words belong. It shows you what the most used word is as well as gives you ample amounts of data to use.

For the text analysis and data visualisation exercise I plan on looking at the book Alice in Wonderland. I find the movie and book very odd yet interesting. I think a scattered wordle will look great with the words from Alice in Wonderland. I am also planning on using wordle to get most of the information about the word frequency, but I also have decided to use voyertools because I used that recently for an essay and it was very helpful. I feel like I can work that site in to help with word count as well as find some of the more interesting words.

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