4.7 Bubblelines Tool!

Bubblelines: Bubble lines are the most useful of the visualizations of the word trends for looking at multiple sources. Can clear terms, add new terms, and see what terms are being used. Use the granularity tool at the top to adjust the number of terms.

Bubbline here highlights “wealth” and “capital”, of interest though it seemed primarily to State of the Union Speeches as seen on the left in the distinctive words section, on the right you see it actually in bubblelines is also being mentioned by suffragettes.

Here’s how women are discussed using the bubble line tool, indicating the intensity of the words used, which is helpful for visualizing just how much a source is discussing something. The term “Women” has consistently been a significant one for the suffragettes, clearly, but this visualization allows you to see it throughout the document. In addition, since I pasted the speeches into the document in chronological order, this tool is also seeing a trend over time. Try using this bubblelines tool with different keywords in the text- how does this visualization shed light on how the Presidents were speaking about “nation”? About “militancy” or “aggression”? What about “peace”?