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.
Visualizing the Construction of an Enemy in Bush's 2003 SOTU
1. Picturing a Thousand
W o R D S
Using Data Visualization Methods
as Teaching Tools
by Shannan Butler
shannanb@stedwards.edu
St. Edward’s University
Austin, TX
2. 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!
3. 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
4. data sets
Choose one
Create one
View raw data as table or text
Check validity & formatting