Word Tree
Creative
data visualisation
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How HN took it
7 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.32.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive D3.js visualization with smooth transitions
From 3 comments
Very cool use of transitions, one of the many fields where d3 really rocks. However, I've always wondered if word trees are really usefull... Sure it makes nice things with the…
chevreuil on HNGreat use of D3.js
chookrl on HNbeautiful, it needs to filter stop words
njx on HN
Bookmarklet makes it easy to use on any page
From 2 comments
Very nice! I'm really impressed that you made a bookmarklet for it. Edit: demos are working fine now.
dergachev on HNamazing, i think it could also be used as a learning tool imagine you feed a book to it and you can explore ideas from there
borplk on HN
Objections
Word trees may not be very useful analytically
From 1 comment
Very cool use of transitions, one of the many fields where d3 really rocks. However, I've always wondered if word trees are really usefull... Sure it makes nice things with the…
chevreuil on HN
Stop words are not filtered out
From 1 comment
beautiful, it needs to filter stop words
njx on HN
Requests
Release the code on GitHub
From 1 comment
This is super awesome! Any plans on releasing this on github?
michaldudek on HN
Client-side text processing and backend code for larger corpora
From 1 comment
Any way to shift the text processing to the client? I'd like to use the bookmarklet on some academic papers (many behind a paywall) and the few I've tried only seem to parse the…
j4ke on HN
Choose the most frequent word as starting point
From 1 comment
Awesome job on this! How does it decide which word to use initially? From what I can tell it picks the first one. I think the experience would be greatly enhanced if it did just…
nickknw on HN
Questions
How does it choose the initial word?
From 1 comment
Awesome job on this! How does it decide which word to use initially? From what I can tell it picks the first one. I think the experience would be greatly enhanced if it did just…
nickknw on HN
Why does it fail on paywalled or cross-origin pages?
From 2 comments
Any way to shift the text processing to the client? I'd like to use the bookmarklet on some academic papers (many behind a paywall) and the few I've tried only seem to parse the…
j4ke on HNDoesn't work in Chrome 25 in W7 ``` XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/datasets/alice-in-wonderland-by-lewis-carroll/versions/1.txt.…
jQueryIsAwesome on HN
Alternatives named
Bubble-based text analysis built with D3
From 1 comment
Yes, I saw that reference after posting it here. It makes sense. I also see it is understanding combination of 2 and 3 words together, very brilliant! Recently I have dabbled…
pjet on HN