Within the reading \u201c<\/span>Jockers and Underwood [Text Analysis and Visualization]\u201d, my main reaction was about the purpose of text and its uses in the present, considering how complex and advanced our technological world is becoming today. Text communication can be avoided in numerous ways: people can listen to audiobooks instead of read, talk to text features exist for sending mobile messages. It occurred to me how over time, text is becoming less and less necessary for people on a daily basis. However, both seeing text visualizations used and reading about text for analysis and their uses in this article led me to the realization and opinion that text will likely always be crucial, especially for data analysis. Wordle word \u00a0cloud visualizations and t<\/span>he Voyant Tools standard reading skin from this article were two text based figures that stuck out to me as being an extremely effective way of viewing and analyzing data.<\/span> Text provides essential means for analyzing data and deriving means from it, in some ways that cannot be replaced by any other processes that completely avoid using text. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Within the reading “Jockers and Underwood [Text Analysis and Visualization]”, my main reaction was about the purpose of text and its uses in the present, considering how complex and advanced our technological world is becoming today. Text communication can be avoided in numerous ways: people can listen to audiobooks instead of read, talk to text … <\/p>\n

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