Kaleidographic
A data visualization tool
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.
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
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