Gallery of Visualizations
This page collects some of the visualizations we have developed to provide new ways of thinking about the texts and authors in Women Writers Online. We welcome experimentation—if you have an idea for an interesting visualization, let us know! And, if you would like to use the XML files for the texts in Women Writers Online in your own research, please send an email with a brief description of your research plans to wwp@neu.edu
Toponym Maps and Graphs
Interactive visualizations and maps of the places named in Women Writers Online, developed by Samuel Diener in his work as a research collaborator on the Intertextual Networks project. View
Bibliographic Visualizations
Two visualizations showing the texts named and quoted in Women Writers Online, developed by Nicole Samay and Ana Pastore y Piontti as part of the Intertextual Networks project. View
Mapping Elizabeth's Craven's Journey
Three maps showing the places named in Elizabeth Craven’s A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, developed by History Ph.D. student Colleen Nugent. View
Dramatic speakers by gender
Two prototype visualizations showing the percentage of dramatic speeches according to their speaker’s gender in two seventeenth-century plays by Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn. View
Class Project: Information Presentation and Visualization
This class project showcases the work of Emily Gringorten, Sofie Cook, and Grace Brown, created for DS4200 “Information Presentation and Visualization.” The team analyzed data from the Intertextual Networks project to explore chronological patterns in citations of well-represented authors and genres in the WWO collection. The team also explored references to women writers over time. View
Fictional correspondence networks
Look at epistolary novels in a new way. This sample visualization provides an interactive representation of the letter-writing networks at the heart of The History of Emily Montague (1769). Explore
Parallel Coordinates for WWO
Examine the WWO corpus at a single glance. This visualization allows you to inspect the collection according to properties like page length, number of quotations from external sources, or frequency of bibliographic citation. View
Mean and Deviation
See how texts in Women Writers Online vary from the textbase mean for a number of categories, such as average length or number of places mentioned in the text. Explore
