So I’ve been working on text-mining all week and that has generally gone very well.
I am a little less confident on the libraries used to create visualizations from text-mining results using python. The main one I have seen referenced is matplotlab, which is slightly intimidating and feels more science/math focused.
Are there python libraries that humanities types use for visualizations? Are other languages/programs preferred? How do you create the graphical representation of your humanities data?
(I may be jumping ahead a bit here, but I have this list of word frequencies and it feels sad to leave it as a list.)
I am just diving into the Data-Driving Documents (D3) JavaScript Library done by the Stanford Data Visualization Group in preparation for Erin’s and my visualization lesson in a couple of weeks. Like most of our tasks, the trick is to get the data in the right format first, but I managed to plug some of my data into the JavaScript and yield results.