Hermeneuti.ca – The Rhetoric of Text Analysis

Cirrus is a visualization tool that displays a word cloud A visual presentation of keywords drawn from a text, visually differentiated based on their position and frequency of use in that text. More Info on the TAPoR WordCloud Tool A good discussion on Tag Clouds Return to Glossary. relating to the frequency of words appearing in one or more documents. One can click on any word appearing in the cloud to obtain detailed information about its relativity. The larger the word, the more frequent the term.

Getting Started Interface Elements Exporting

Getting Started

When you first arrive to the Cirrus tool you will see one of two possible screens:

Cirrus without a pre-loaded corpus. See loading texts into Voyeur for help on how to proceed.

Cirrus with a pre-loaded corpus. You were probably given a URLA URL (Uniform Resource Locator), sometimes called a web address, is used to locate and identify web content. For more information, see the Wikipedia. Return to Glossary. that included the corpus, or you're viewing a page that has an embedded Voyeur tool in it. If you prefer, you can also start without a Corpus.

Interface Elements

Cirrus includes the standard set of interface elements (see image to the right). For more help with these see the Voyeur Tools Standard Interface Elements page.

Hovering over a word will cause a box to appear that displays the frequency count for that term.

If a word is clicked, you are taken to an analysis of the word within the document(s). On the right side, Voyeur displays the relativity of the word in each of the document(s). (This is the Document Term Frequencies tool.)

Exporting

Like all Voyeur tools, Cirrus can be reused in a variety of ways:

• create a link that is specific to the corpus and options that are currently being used
• embed the current corpus and options as a tool in an external page

For more information see exporting and reusing Voyeur Tools.