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Bubbles

Thu, 12/02/2010 - 15:26 — CoreySlavnik
 Bubbles reads the words in a document (or corpus) and displays the highest frequency words within proportionately large bubbles.

Getting Started

When you first arrive to the Bubbles tool you will see one of two possible screens:

Bubbles without a pre-loaded corpus. See loading texts into Voyeur for help on how to proceed.

Bubbles with a pre-loaded corpus. You were probably given a URLA URL (Uniform Resource Locator), sometimes called a web address, is used to locate and identify web content. For more information, see the Wikipedia. Return to Glossary. that included the corpus, or you're viewing a page that has an embedded Voyeur tool in it. If you prefer, you can also start without a corpus.

Interface Elements

Bubbles includes the standard set of interface elements (see image to the right). For more help with these see the Voyeur Tools Standard Interface Elements page.

Standard UI Elements

As more Bubbles load, you will see a list of terms. The higher the term is on the list, the higher frequency it has within the corpus. The same applies for the bubbles – the larger the bubble, the higher frequency it has within the corpus.

Different sizes of bubbles

At the bottom left of the screen, the tool displays the number of bubbles displayed out of the possible terms in the corpus. If the number is increasing, this means bubbles is still loading in more terms.

Number of terms in the corpus

Exporting

Like all Voyeur tools, Bubbles can be reused in a variety of ways:

  • create a link that is specific to the corpus and options that are currently being used
  • embed the current corpus and options as a tool in an external page

For more information see exporting and reusing Voyeur Tools.