Mapping the Rhythm and Flow of Literary Works

by Nathan Danforth on Thursday, April 24, 2008 · 1 comment

in Natural Language, Visualization

Found on notcot.com, On The Map is a cool project by Stefanie Posavec that maps the rhythm and flow of literary works into some stunning visual posters.

Literary Organisms

Breaking a story down into chapters, paragraphs, sentences and finally individual words. Then color coded to capture the topics as they reappear throughout the story. The level of detail is really impressive.

Sentence Drawings

Rhythm Textures

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  • Natural Language - Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.
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