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Scatter Plot

Mon, 12/20/2010 - 14:51 — CoreySlavnik
 ScatterPlot creates a scatter plot graph of terms, spaced by their variation from one another.

Getting Started

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

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

ScatterPlot 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

ScatterPlot 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.

Standard UI Elements

When you first load ScatterPlot, you will see a variety of terms plotted on a graph. If you hover over the terms, you will see their variation explained by each component on the x and y axis. If you click on any of these terms, it will bring you to the Document KWICsA concordance or keyword in context (KWIC) is usually represented as a list of occurrences of a word with some limited context shown (words to the left and words to the right). Here is an example that shows the occurrences of the word "dream" in A Midsummer Night's Dream in TACTweb: I.1/577.1 | Four nights will quickly dream away the time; | And I.1/578.2 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; | Brief as the II.2/585.1 | Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here! | Lysander, III.2/591.1 this derision | Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision, | IV.1/593.1 as the fierce vexation of a dream. | But first I will IV.1/594.2 to me | That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think | The IV.1/594.2 rare | vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to IV.1/594.2 the wit of man to | say what dream it was: man is but an IV.1/594.2 he go | about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there IV.1/594.2 his heart to report, what my dream | was. I will get Peter IV.1/594.2 to write a ballad of | this dream: it shall be called IV.1/594.2 it shall be called Bottom's dream, | because it hath no V.1/599.1 | Following darkness like a dream, | Now are frolic: not a V.1/599.2 theme, | No more yielding but a dream, | Gentles, do not See also the definition at Wikipedia. Return to Glossary. tool for further analysis.

Clicking on a term

ScatterPlot offers options for changing the plot. The terms button allows you choose how many terms should be displayed. The dimensions button lets you switch between a two or three dimensional graph. Toggle labels simply removes or adds labels for the terms on the graph.

Scatterplot's options

Exporting

Like all Voyeur tools, ScatterPlot 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.