{"id":11753,"date":"2016-08-10T16:27:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cherryleaf.com\/blog\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2016-08-10T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T15:27:38","slug":"sankeytextualvariant-visualisation-software-for-comparing-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryleaf.com\/2016\/08\/sankeytextualvariant-visualisation-software-for-comparing-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"SankeyTextualVariant: Visualisation software for comparing texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Martin Paul Eve of Birkbeck College, University of London,\u00a0has released, for free, the visualisation software that helped him compare the texts of the novel Cloud Atlas. It displays the differences as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sankey_diagram\">Sankey diagram<\/a>.\u00a0It&#8217;s intended to be used for comparing contemporary fiction, but it may have uses for analysing other long documents.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryleaf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sankeydiagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cherryleaf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sankeydiagram-300x240.png\" alt=\"sankeydiagram\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n<p>See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MartinPaulEve\/SankeyTextualVariant\">SankeyTextualVariant<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/olh.openlibhums.org\/article\/10.16995\/olh.82\/\">\u201cYou have to keep track of your changes\u201d: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell&#8217;s Cloud Atlas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/aug\/10\/cloud-atlas-astonishingly-different-in-us-and-uk-editions-study-finds\">Cloud Atlas &#8216;astonishingly different&#8217; in US and UK editions, study finds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Martin Paul Eve of Birkbeck College, University of London,\u00a0has released, for free, the visualisation software that helped him compare the texts of the novel Cloud Atlas. 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