I would like to generate visualizations of a large text corpus similar to ManyEye's Word Tree and PhraseNet.

The data is more than 500MB, which makes it impossible to handle with ManyEyes.

Thanks.

asked Jul 03 '10 at 18:08

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Thanks. But how do I generate the .html file with my data?

answered Dec 02 '11 at 21:05

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Well, you can have the data in JSON format in a separate file, and then read it in using javascript, or have the data (json) be generated by a server-side script and displayed live.

(Dec 02 '11 at 21:48) aditi

I have the same question, wondering if an answer has found: is there an existing tool that will generate word trees for large data sets?

answered Dec 02 '11 at 18:46

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In which language? Here's my (static, not interactive) word tree javascript implementation: https://github.com/silverasm/wordtree, but it does have a tendency to crash the browser when applied to a large tree.

(Dec 02 '11 at 20:13) aditi

There's no off-the-shelf way to build word trees/phrase nets, but I agree with Mark, it should be easy enough to implement starting from the paper.

In fact, my project for the coming semester is actually to implement it for my current viz project, but I'll be using javascript/html/css and not flash.

answered Jul 07 '10 at 12:58

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edited Apr 30 '12 at 16:22

I don't know of anything that can handle such a large dataset but perhaps you can build your own with one the the many Flex/Flash components and also add a navigation tool to it. The great thing about Flash and Flex is that you can easily pull your data from your database via XML in chunks so you won't overload the browser. Check out the following projects and pages. Flare might be exactly what you are looking for.

answered Jul 06 '10 at 20:48

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Thanks Mark. Yes, I have looked at Flare in the past. I was just wondering if there was some sort of existing tool that would provide visualizations like the one I need out of the box. In fact, I do not need the viz to be web-based. Perhaps there is no such thing yet...

(Jul 07 '10 at 10:23) Andrés Monroy Hernández
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