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

[cdayr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" <dumbledad at ...> 
wrote:
><snip>

> 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/SGXXRFsOtha6C22ESrdW
G2- 
> 'Lupin' Tag Cloud
> http://tinyurl.com/35j3m8 
> 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6L2IA44eW
G2- 
> 
> 'James' Bubble Chart
> http://tinyurl.com/2kptnp 
> 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6W22ZyXeW
G2- 
> 'James' Tag Cloud
> http://tinyurl.com/39tbnh 
> 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6d2IyVgeW
G2- 
> 
> 'Snape' Bubble Chart
> http://tinyurl.com/3c39u3 
> 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6v2ICryeW
G2- 
> 'Snape' Tag Cloud
> http://tinyurl.com/33y7dy 
> 
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6D3YJ_7fW
G2- 
> 
<snip>

Celia here:
Dumbledad, these are amazing and I find them rather beautiful. In 
particular I enjoyed looking at the Tag Clouds. A few things I found 
fascinating:

The high frequency of "eyes" and "face" for all three of these 
characters.
The enormous "looked" for Lupin. (Also quite large for Snape.)
The sadly huge "killed" for James.
I also enjoyed the equal frequency of "dementor" and "chocolate" for 
Lupin. 

I will definitely return to these again, as they have so much 
detail. The Tag Clouds truly read like strange poems to me. Thanks 
for all the work.

Celia