VisuWords: Online Graphical Dictionary

By Barry Ritholtz - December 31st, 2009, 2:30PM

Visuwords is is a visualization tool based upon Princeton University’s WordNet.

The online graphical database — part dictionary, part thesaurus — that groups words by their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. These related linguistic ideas are visually displayed in an interactive graphic.

The most interesting visual displays come from the broadest topical words. Try words like Music, Biology, War; I’ve had more luck with nouns than verbs.

Each node can be further opened, revealing related ideas, words, etc. As an example, here is what “Economics” looks like:

Click for interactive graphic>

For the above, I used the Fill Browser setting — a scalable, widescreen display.

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One Response to “VisuWords: Online Graphical Dictionary”

The Window Washer Says:
December 31st, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Never thought a shit would be more interesting than a fuck, but try them both.

Happy New Year
Thanks for the year of fun Barry

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