Many of our figures are better consumed in colour. Below you will find copies of every image from the volume, with their original captions.
1.1 The length of trials, in words, in Old Bailey Proceedings. Copyright Tim Hitchcock and William J. Turkel, 2011. Used with permission.
1.2 “The United States are” versus “The United States is”.
1.3 Bookworm search of “taxes”, all books. Courtesy Ben Schmidt.
1.4 Bookworm search of “taxes” for books published in the United States.
1.5 Bookworm search of “taxes” for books published in the United Kingdom. Courtesy Ben Schmidt.
1.6 “labor history” and “labour history” search results in articles in JSTOR, via dfr.jstor.org.
1.7 “environmental history” search results in articles in JSTOR, via dfr.jstor.org.
1.8 “environmental history” search results, filtered by “discipline,” in JSTOR, via dfr.jstor.org.
3.1 War and Peace as a word cloud. Made with Wordle.net.
3.2 The Regina Manifesto as a word cloud. Made with Wordle.net.
3.3 The CCF’s Winnipeg Declaration of 1956 as a word cloud. Made with Wordle.net.
3.4 NDP platform for the 2011 Canadian General Election as a word cloud. Made with Wordle.net.
3.5 The AntConc interface. Courtesy Laurence Anthony.
3.6 Concordance plot tool in AntConc. Courtesy Laurence Anthony.
3.7 The standard Voyant Tools interface screen. Courtesy St´efan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell.
3.8 The Overview interface sorting the text of historical plaques from Toronto. Courtesy Jonathan Stray, et al., Overview Project.
3.9 Screenshot of the metadata to delete in the archive.org file on the diplomatic correspondence of the Republic of Texas.
3.10 The regex search results imported into OpenRefine
3.11 Part 1 The output of using OpenRefine to clean our data.
3.11 Part 2 The output of using OpenRefine to clean our data.
4.1 Hollis Peirce’s marked up Gettysburg address. Yellow (light) represents ‘war’ words, green (grey) represents ‘governance’, red (dark) represents words that could be either.
4.2 The GUI Topic Modeling Tool
4.3 The GUI Topic Modeling Tool settings.
4.4 Sample HTML output from the GUI Topic Modeling Tool.
4.5 Top-ranked documents in a topic, generated HTML output from the GUI Topic Modeling Tool.
4.6 Looking inside a document, using the HTML output from the GUI Topic Modeling Tool.
4.7 A scraper using Outwit Hub.
4.8 Stanford Topic Modeling Toolbox. Courtesy Daniel Ramage.
4.9 Configuring the Stanford Topic Modeling Toolbox. Courtesy Daniel Ramage
4.10 Select all the data in Microsoft Excel. Used with permission from Microsoft.
4.11 Configure the pivot table wizard in Microsoft Excel. Used with permission from Microsoft.
4.12 The data now arranged as a pivot table in Microsoft Excel. Used with permission from Microsoft.
4.13 Visualizing a single topic over time in Microsoft Excel. Used with permission from Microsoft.
4.14 Comparing topics over time in Microsoft Excel. Used with permission from Microsoft.
4.15 Visualizing topics over time in Microsoft Excel. Used with permission from Microsoft.
4.16 Topics 10, 15, 18 over time in John Adams’ Diaries in Microsoft Excel. Used with permission from Microsoft
4.17 Using Google Sheets to visualize time slices of documents and topics in John Adams’ Diaries.
Screenshot of Lancaster’s interface for studying the evolution of glyphs over time.
5.2 Amazon’s X-Ray search juxtaposed against Google Chrome’s scroll-bar search term indicator Screenshot courtesy Aslak Raanes.
5.2 Part 2 Amazon’s X-Ray search juxtaposed against Google Chrome’s scroll-bar search term indicator Screenshot courtesy Aslak Raanes.
5.3 An error in data entry becomes apparent quickly when data are represented as a chart.
5.4 Even a spreadsheet can be considered a visualization.
5.5 Screenshot of a detail from ORBIS. Courtesy Elijah Meeks.
5.6 The years mentioned in dissertation titles, after Schmidt, 2013. Courtesy Benjamin Schmidt.
5.11 The line in Fig. 5.10 is removed and replaced with a trendline on the points.
5.14 The changing frequency of “aboue” and “above”. Courtesy Anupam Basu.
5.16 John Snow’s dot density map.
5.17 A proportional symbol map showing the population of the largest cities in the United States.
5.18 Detail of a topographic map. Courtesy United States Geological Survey.
5.19 Newman’s cartogram of the 2008 US Presidential election results.
5.20 Detail centered on Rome, digital map of the Roman Empire. Courtesy the Pelagios project.
5.21 Detail of the LOTRProject map of Middle Earth, with The Shire to the left. Courtesy Emil Johansson.
5.22 Horizontal tree map showing the descendants of Josiah Wedgwood.
5.23 Radial tree diagram showing the organization of a corporation.
5.24 Washington, DC’s budget, 2013, as a treemap. Courtesy Justin Grimes.
5.25 Small multiples, a series of maps representing weather anomalies in the United States since 1964. Courtesy Brian Abelson.
5.26 Sparklines in MS Excel, depicting character appearances in a novel.
5.27 A misuse of angle to indicate age.
5.28 Hue, value, and saturation.
5.30 Pre-attentive processing.
5.31 Spatially distinct groups, spatially distinct colors.
5.32 Part 1 The same chart, with and without extraneous lines and data labels.
5.32 Part 2 The same chart, with and without extraneous lines and data labels.
6.2 Edges connecting nodes.
6.3 Nodes and edges with attributes (depicted by the size of the node and the weight of the edge).
6.5 A dyad engaged in a reciprocal relationship.
6.7 A triad demonstrating transivity.
6.9 An unweighted network.
6.10 A network with directed edges.
6.11 A bipartite network.
6.12 A citation network as a directed network.
6.13 Collapsing a bipartite network into a unipartite one (for instance, a network of members and scholarly societies to a network of scholarly societies where members are the edges).
6.14 Path length between Edward Norton and Kevin Bacon, via co-starring in movies.
Fig. 6.16 Closeness centrality.
6.17 Betweenness centrality.
6.18 Local clustering coefficient.
6.19 Part 1 Degree distribution of the network displayed above.
6.19 Part 2 6.19 Degree distribution of the network displayed above.
7.1 A matrix visualization of Les Mis´erables. Microsoft Excel screenshot used with permission from Microsoft.
7.2 A force-directed layout of inter-familial connections in Renaissance Florence.
7.3 Accessing the Data Laboratory in Gephi.
7.4 The import spreadsheet dialogue box.
7.5 Copying data from one column to another.
7.6 Fixing the layout view.
7.7 Calculating connected components.
7.8 Filtering components.
7.9 Calculating PageRank.
7.10 Resizing nodes by PageRank.
7.11 Previewing the network visualization.