Lesson 5: Visualising and Analysing Text Data

Content

• Introduction to text data and text visualisation
• Text Visualisation methods:
  • Tag Cloud
  • Wordle
  • Word Tree
  • Phrase Nets
• Text Visualisation in R
  • textplot
  • LDAVis
  • quanteda

Lesson Slides and Hands-on Notes

• Lesson 5: Visualising and Analysing Text Data slides.

• Hands-on Exercise 5: Visualising and Analysing Text Data.

Readings

Core Readings

• A beginner’s guide to using text in data visualization
• The pros and cons of word clouds as visualizations