Kaleidographic
A data visualization tool
Helen Caple | University of New South Wales
Laurence Anthony | Waseda University
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
Published online: 05 August 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.18038.cap
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.18038.cap
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