Authors:
Stefan Jänicke
;
Judith Blumenstein
;
Michaela Rücker
;
Dirk Zeckzer
and
Gerik Scheuermann
Affiliation:
Leipzig University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Tag Clouds, Pie Charts, TagPies, Text Visualization, Text Comparison, Digital Humanities.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Abstract Data Visualization
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
General Data Visualization
;
Text and Document Visualization
;
Visual Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery
;
Visualization Applications
Abstract:
A TagPie is a novel tag cloud layout that arranges the tags belonging to multiple data categories in a pie chart
manner. Motivated from research in classical philology, TagPies were designed to support the comparative
analysis of classical terminology. In this scenario, the data categories represent the co-occurrences of different
searched keywords, so that the comparison of the contexts in which these keywords were used becomes possible
using TagPies. This paper illustrates the iterative development of TagPies, which aid as a distant reading
view on a text corpus for humanities scholars. We outline various steps of our collaborative digital humanities
project, and we emphasize the utility of the proposed design by outlining various usage scenarios representing
current research questions in classical philology.