some cut down visualizations of the Harry Potter books: Lupin, James, and Snape

[Tim Regan]

Hi All,

Many of you know that I've been looking at how one might use statistics or
information visualization techniques to analyse the Harry Potter series.
Many of you will also know that I'm not the most "on time" person so I'm now
having a mad rush to get at least something public done before the final
instalment. One thing I thought I'd try was "Many Eyes". Do you know it?
It's an information visualization community site where people can post
data-sets and visualizations of them and then compare findings etc. It's
started by Fernanda Viégas
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/visual/fernanda.html  at IBM's Visual
Communications Lab. She did some amazing work visualizing the authorship of
Wikipedia pages, well worth a look if you are interested in that kind of
thing.

Anyway, I've uploaded a bunch of datasets to Many Eyes and some
visualizations that you might enjoy. For each of the words 'Lupin', 'James',
and 'Snape' I've taken the other words that occur within 10 words in the HP
series, and then plotted them. The two plots are a Bubble Chart using the
overall frequency of the word in the series to decide the bubble's size, and
a Tag Cloud where the word size is based on the number of times the word
occurred near the target word.

Hmmm, I'm not sure that will make sense, but here are the visualizations:

'Lupin' Bubble Chart
http://tinyurl.com/2mt6zf 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6C22ESrdWG2- 
'Lupin' Tag Cloud
http://tinyurl.com/35j3m8 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6L2IA44eWG2- 

'James' Bubble Chart
http://tinyurl.com/2kptnp 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6W22ZyXeWG2- 
'James' Tag Cloud
http://tinyurl.com/39tbnh 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6d2IyVgeWG2- 

'Snape' Bubble Chart
http://tinyurl.com/3c39u3 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6v2ICryeWG2- 
'Snape' Tag Cloud
http://tinyurl.com/33y7dy 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6D3YJ_7fWG2- 

I might work on some more (any requests) if the interactions from the Many
Eyes community prove fruitful. Otherwise I'm also hoping to get a web
accessible version of the reverse Text Arc I showed at Accio 2005 working.
I'll keep you posted.

Cheers,

Dumbledad


		
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