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Picturing a Thousand W o R D S Using Data Visualization Methods as Teaching Tools by Shannan Butler [email protected] St. Edward’s University Austin, TX

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This slideshow explores the uses of Many Eyes as a classroom teaching and analysis tool. In particular, it looks at how students at St. Edward's University in Rhetorical Criticism analyze speech texts using visualization tools available on Many Eyes. Tag Clouds, Wordles, and Word Trees are combined to determine word frequencies and clusters. These findings are used to create a rhetorical analysis based upon Kenneth Burke's Cluster Criticism.

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Picturing a Thousand W o R D SUsing Data Visualization Methods

as Teaching Tools

by Shannan [email protected]

St. Edward’s UniversityAustin, TX

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many eyes

Provided by IBM’s Visual Communication Lab

Their goal is to “democratize visualization and to enable a

new social kind of data analysis.”

Absolutely FREE!

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many eyes

90,000 user provided data sets

both textual and numeric

U.S. Gov, OECD, Employment, Climate, Income, Diversity, etc.

18 Visualization Types

Share data

Foster discussion

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data sets

Choose one

Create one

View raw data as table or text

Check validity & formatting

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visualize

Choose an appropriate visualization type

Play with your data!

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share

Create an account

Add your visualization

Solicit or share feedback

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of Tag Clouds& Word Trees

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Cluster Criticism

•Based on the work of Kenneth Burke

•Select key terms based on Frequency & Intensity

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Chart the Clusters•Identify terms that cluster

around the key terms

•Look for proximity, conjunctions, and cause-and-effect

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Iraqi People

www.many-eyes.com

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Construction of an Enemy in George W. Bush’s State of the Union Speech, 2003

by Nowlen, Jensen, Gibbs, Murphy, Taylor & Wang

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HusseinCharacter•Deceived•Dominated•Intimidate

Tools•Terrorist•Hijackers•Al Qaeda•Biological Weapons•Nuclear Weapons

Action•Kill•War•Death•Hiding

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Iraq Character•Evil•Enemy•Dictator•Regime

Tools•Biological Weapon•Illegal Weapon•Burning•Rape•Mutilation•Electric Shock

Action•Not disarm•Denying•Blocking•Intimidating

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United States / America

Character• Honorable• Resolute• Strong• Free• Brave• Innocent

Tools• Armed Forces• Military• Power• God• Allies• Friends• U.N.

Actions• Battle • Force• Risk• Peace

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•Character•Brave•Oppressed•Refugee

•Tools•Food•Medicine•Supplies

•Action•Freedom•Liberty

Iraqi People

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Terms

Devil

•Hussein

•Iraq

God

•America

•Iraqi People

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Tag Cloud

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Iraqi People

Word Tree

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Iraqi People

Word Tree

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Iraqi People

Word Tree

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Iraqi People

Word Tree

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Iraqi People

Word Tree