General considerations for developing visualizations
Stepping back a bit from the specific techniques we have reviewed so far, we will next discuss some general considerations about visualizations. Specifically, in the next sections, we will talk about what to measure, followed by how to represent these measurements and the relationships among the measurements. Because the most common visualizations are based on representing information in the XY plane in two dimensions, we will mainly focus on visualizations in this format, starting with selecting among measurements.
Selecting among measurements
Nearly all NLP begins with measuring some property or properties of texts we are analyzing. The goal of this section is to help you understand the different kinds of text measurements that are available in NLP projects.
So far, we’ve primarily focused on measurements involving words. Words are a natural property to measure because they are easy to count accurately –...