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Term Fountain

Thu, 12/02/2010 - 14:19 — CoreySlavnik
 Term Fountain visualizes word frequencies as a fountain.

Getting Started

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

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

Term Fountain 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

Term Fountain 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

Once you load a corpus into Term Fountain, it will begin to generate a fountain. Hover over certain streams to see which word the stream represents. The higher the stream, the higher the term frequency.

Hovering over a Term

Exporting

Like all Voyeur tools, Term Fountain 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.