The Word Tree, an Interactive Visual Concordance

We introduce the Word Tree, a new visualization and information-retrieval technique aimed at text documents. A Word Tree is a graphical version of the traditional "keyword-in-context" method, and enables rapid querying and exploration of bodies of text. In this paper we describe the design...

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Published in:	IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 14; no. 6; pp. 1221 - 1228
Main Authors:	Wattenberg, M., Viegas, F.B.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States IEEE 01-11-2008 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:	Blogs case study Computer displays Computer graphics concordance Data visualization document visualization Drilling Exploration Eyes Feedback Frequency Index Terms&#8212 Information retrieval Interactive Many Eyes search Text visualization Texts Tree data structures Tree graphs Trees Visual Visualization
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Summary:	We introduce the Word Tree, a new visualization and information-retrieval technique aimed at text documents. A Word Tree is a graphical version of the traditional "keyword-in-context" method, and enables rapid querying and exploration of bodies of text. In this paper we describe the design of the technique, along with some of the technical issues that arise in its implementation. In addition, we discuss the results of several months of public deployment of word trees on Many Eyes, which provides a window onto the ways in which users obtain value from the visualization.
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ISSN:	1077-2626 1941-0506
DOI:	10.1109/TVCG.2008.172