visualization, analysis, and next-gen tech

Yesterday, Tim Showers posted an interesting piece called “Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents” which features numerous techniques for visualizing text from sources such as stump speeches, or literature, or simply a sentence.  He explains visualizations that span the spectrum from Tag Clouds to Document Arc Diagrams.

One of my favorite visualizations Tim mentions is “literary organism maps“, from Stefanie Posavec which demonstrate the subject matter of each chapter in a given piece of literature “within a textual context”.  Being an English major in college, this concept is extremely interesting to me.  Visit her project website to see all her impressive visualizations.