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Matthew Jocker and Ted Underwood’s paper Text Analysis and Visualization provides a useful introduction to the methods used when working with large quantities of text. The problem proposed is simple. We live in a world with seemingly endless information; how can we eliminate the fluff and get what we want? One can analyze a corpus (body of text(s)) to search for the ubiquity of a single word, or even a pattern of characters. These results can reveal similarities and/or correlations within the corpus that can be useful when researching and annotating works. One could even create a new text solely based upon the analysis. This allows for powerful visualization, resulting in artistic and insightful interpretations of data. Text analysis and visualization is a powerful supplementary research tool that should not be overlooked.