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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 24:2 (2019) ► pp.245–261

Kaleidographic

A data visualization tool

| University of New South Wales
| Waseda University
| The University of Sydney | Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Kaleidographic is a dynamic and interactive data visualization tool that allows users to observe and explore relations between any number of variables. The tool is useful for displaying the complex ways in which textual elements interact across a range of texts. Thus far, the tool has been used to display the results of corpus studies as well as corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analyses that investigate text-image relations. To facilitate broader applications of the tool, it is now publicly available online for use without charge. This paper explains the background and motivation for Kaleidographic and presents two case studies demonstrating its utility. Limitations of the tool are discussed and its potential uses in corpus linguistics research and beyond are introduced.

Keywords: data visualization, Kaleidographic , multimodality, software, text analysis tools
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.What is data visualization?
  • 3.What is Kaleidographic?
    • 3.1Features of Kaleidographic
      • 3.1.1Basic view and controls
      • 3.1.2Filters
      • 3.1.3Speed
      • 3.1.4Aggregation of results
    • 3.2 Kaleidographic builder
    • 3.3Sharing visualizations
  • 4.How has Kaleidographic been used?
    • 4.1Case Study 1: Swear/taboo words in US TV series
    • 4.2Case Study 2: Instagram
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 5 August 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.18038.cap
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