Comments on: Tokyo | Cairo: Comparing Obama’s Foreign Policy Speeches

By: Accounting

Accounting — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:01:59 +0000

Hi, I saw your work in Gemalto magazine. Impressive!

I'd try your tool for one author's corpus of texts (poetry). (The right half of the drawing, turned right). Really interesting.

By: Tobias Hauser

Tobias Hauser — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:40:40 +0000

Hi Jer, I liked your work so much that I went ahead and built a clone: http://bit.ly/7c31WN I hope you don't mind. As this is my first Processing sketch I kept close to your example and was grateful to 'know' up front how things should work out. Would not have been able to do it without such help. I'll use it to analyse interview data in qualitative research. As you are it's 'godfather' I thought I let you know that you have been a real inspiration. Thank you!

By: Gary_W77

Gary_W77 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:29:16 +0000

Hi,blprnt_van
I have done this.
farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4176934602_97f80 825fc_o.png
you build with Processing v1.0
but I build with Qt 4.6.0
Thanks for your inspiration.
I may take this as an embryonic idea of My dissertation.

By: Tokyo versus Cairo: Comparing Obama’s Foreign Policy Speeches at thegraffik | Design and Illustration

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:24:18 +0000

[...] Tokio | Cairo [blprnt.com] is a novel visual text comparison tool, which enables the discovery the similarities and differences between Obama's famous open address to the Muslim world, given in July at the University of Cairo, and his recent speech delivered at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:30:02 +0000

Makes perfect sense. Thanks!

By: blprnt

blprnt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:56:07 +0000

Hi Andrew,

The horizontal positions are calculated by averaging the weights of the words in each article. So, yes, there is some adjustment for the size of the article.

The vertical positions are an average of all of the location of the word in the articles - I calculate the average location for each word in each text then average the two to get the overall position.

When a word is focused, you see the 'cords' showing theoccurrenceof the words in each text. These cords show up lighter when no individual word is focused. My intent with these 'bundles' was to give some general idea of where each word occurs in the texts - this information can easily be lost when all of the averaging is done.

Does that make sense?

-Jer

By: Priit

Priit — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:39:03 +0000

Hi, I saw your work in Gemalto magazine. Impressive!

I'd try your tool for one author's corpus of texts (poetry). (The right half of the drawing, turned right). Really interesting.

By: Tobias Hauser

Tobias Hauser — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:07:47 +0000

Hi Jer,
your tool looks suitable to be used in qualitative research analyzing interview data. I.e. in the grounded theory approach you delineate concepts from data to build substantive or formal theory. There are QDA system available but your way of visually comparing two stories looks intriguing.
I'm really eager to see your release!

By: blprnt

blprnt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:27:24 +0000

Hi John,

I hadn't considered the legal world when I built his but of course I can see how it might be useful! If there are any specific features that you think would be useful, let me know.

By: blprnt

blprnt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:25:40 +0000

Hi John,

Yes, it will be released soon with an open source license. Typically my only request is that if the code gets used there is an attribution when the work is published.