Category Archives: Text Skimming

Lyrics as Tiles: Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy coded with Color and Texture

Posted on December 11, 2021 by richardbrath

Song lyrics depend heavily on rhythm, syllables and rhyme (in some songs such as pop songs). Some poetry visualizations add white space between words and lines, which can then be filled with various visualization techniques, such as forming links between … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Causes of Death in Georgian London

Posted on December 30, 2020 by richardbrath

LondonLives.org is a collection of 240,000 historic manuscripts from eighteenth century London. These have been collected, organized and analyzed, such as Sharon Howard’s summary of 2894 coroner inquests from London 1760-1799 with each case including subjects, verdicts and causes of … Continue reading →

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Visualizing with Text – Interactive Demos

Posted on September 23, 2020 by richardbrath

Visualizing with Text now has interactive demos made with observable notebooks. One demo for word skimming is discussed including some code edits to make colorful text. Continue reading →

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Variable Fonts vs. Parametric Fonts and Data Visualization

Posted on August 26, 2017 by richardbrath

I’ve typically been using ready-made fonts to create font-based visualizations in this blog. However, sticking to ready-made fonts means that you get only one slope angle for italic, a few levels of weight, maybe a condensed version or maybe not. … Continue reading →

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Readability

Posted on February 26, 2017 by richardbrath

Readability and what it means for data visualization Type can be legible, but still unreadable. Consider this image: Beautiful Helvetica, mirrored and rotated 180 degrees. Two highly common words from the English language. Letters are perfectly legible and even turn … Continue reading →

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Dickens and Oz formatted for Skimming

Posted on September 1, 2015 by richardbrath

Text skimming is a strategy for rapidly getting the main ideas of a text, without reading all the words but instead dipping into the text, such as reading the first paragraph, unusual words, and proper nouns (e.g. BBC, AACC). Skimming can be useful … Continue reading →

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Potential uses of font attributes in visualization

Posted on December 31, 2014 by richardbrath

This is another post on the use of font-specific attributes and potential use in visualization. Marking up Text: e.g. Text Skimming, Speed Reading, Parts of Speech In some of my current research work, I am looking at using font-specific attributes … Continue reading →

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