Imagine being able to examine books by looking at a pinwheel of tags, and see, in a visual style, which keyword and its synonyms, dominate. Then, if any part of the book touches on what you're interested in, clicking on that tag and being taken to the page (s) with the information your looking for.
- DocuBurst – the name is a mash-up of document and sunburst – is the brainchild of 28-year-old University of Toronto student Christopher Collins. It's a new method of information visualization (a.k.a. InfoViz) that allows a person to quickly determine the cumulative theme(s) of a given book or document, while at the same time allowing specific keyword searches. - http://www.thestar.com/News/article/223620
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