Text analytics and new visualization techniques

Text analytics are advancing rapidly, and new visualization techniques for text are providing new capabilities. Richard Brath and Scott Langevin offer an overview of these new ways to organize massive volumes of text, characterize subjects, score synopses, and skim through lots of documents.

Text analytics have advanced with techniques such as entity extraction and characterization, topic and opinion analysis, and sentiment and emotion extraction, but text visualization hasn’t advanced much since the tag cloud. However, recent visualization techniques for text are providing new capabilities. Richard Brath and Scott Langevin offer an overview of these new ways to organize massive volumes of text, characterize subjects, score synopses, and skim through lots of documents. Together, these techniques can improve workflows for users focused on documents.