IBM Data Explorer (DX) The second objective, the actual study of textual data, is still unfolding. My interest is in studying the structures and typologies of discursive formation in large samples of textual data, and developing new techniques for reading and interpreting text. It has taken about a year of trial and error to get to a stage where actual anaylysis can be performed effectively. My first analysis was of Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs" and other cyberspace related documents. While this tool has already offered me important clues about discourse formation and about future strategies for language visualization, it should remain clear that this line of research is still very young and that this is a very limited example of material analyzed and of techniques employed.
There are two basic parts to this tool, the pageview and the imageview, which appear simultanously on the screen every time the program is executed.