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<strong>LitNet</strong> Akademies Jaargang 9(2), Augustus 2012<br />
Visual representations and <strong>in</strong>teraction technologies give users a gateway <strong>in</strong>to their<br />
data, lett<strong>in</strong>g them see and understand large volumes of <strong>in</strong>formation at once. To<br />
facilitate analytical reason<strong>in</strong>g, visual analytics builds on the human m<strong>in</strong>d’s ability to<br />
understand c<strong>om</strong>plex <strong>in</strong>formation visually. (Th<strong>om</strong>as en Cook 2006:11; sien ook<br />
Roberts 2011:17.)<br />
Daar bestaan talle produkte op <strong>die</strong> mark en Kirschenbaum (2007:4) noem hoe Spotfire<br />
(http://spotfire.tibco.c<strong>om</strong>), TextArc (http://www.textarc.org) en ander al vrugbaar aangewend<br />
is b<strong>in</strong>ne <strong>die</strong> letterkunde, terwyl Athenikos (2009) beskryf hoe visualisasie deur middel van<br />
Prefuse (http://prefuse.org) kan help met <strong>die</strong> stu<strong>die</strong> van filosofie. ’n Ander program wat<br />
spesifiek vir kwalitatiewe navors<strong>in</strong>gsdoele<strong>in</strong>des ontwikkel is, is QSR se Nvivo<br />
(http://www.qsr<strong>in</strong>ternational.c<strong>om</strong>/), wat ook <strong>die</strong> ontled<strong>in</strong>g van data deur middel van<br />
visualiser<strong>in</strong>g bemagtig, en veral ontwerp is <strong>om</strong> met multimedia te werk (video, oudio en<br />
teks). Kirschenbaum (2007:4) voer aan:<br />
The importance of visualization as a means of access<strong>in</strong>g and study<strong>in</strong>g the results of<br />
the text analysis cannot be over-emphasized. When we look at a pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g or picture,<br />
we grasp the entirety of it with<strong>in</strong> our optical field. The eye can easily move fr<strong>om</strong> one<br />
region of the image to the next, look<strong>in</strong>g for patterns and correspondences which aid <strong>in</strong><br />
<strong>in</strong>terpretation. In the case of a novel (or even a short story or a long poem), however,<br />
we cannot hold the entirety of the text with<strong>in</strong> our visual field. Indeed, the physical<br />
form of the codex book itself mitigates aga<strong>in</strong>st this, as the text is arbitrarily broken up<br />
<strong>in</strong>to discrete units divided by pages. Visualization, which essentially makes the text a<br />
picture, is capable of br<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g a novel <strong>in</strong>to focus as a unified visual event.<br />
Voyeur (http://voyeurtools.org) is ’n gratis aanlyn-teksontled<strong>in</strong>gsprogram wat deur Stefan<br />
S<strong>in</strong>clair en Geoffrey Rockwell ontwikkel is as deel van <strong>die</strong> Hermeneuti.ca-projek. Ten e<strong>in</strong>de<br />
<strong>die</strong> potensiaal van Voyeur te illustreer, is ’n korpus Afrikaanse akademiese <strong>artikel</strong>s<br />
saamgestel wat alles <strong>in</strong>sluit van Stilet wat elektronies beskikbaar is (2002–2010, 231 <strong>artikel</strong>s)<br />
en alles van <strong>LitNet</strong> Akademies wat <strong>in</strong> <strong>PDF</strong> beskikbaar is (2008–2010, 92 <strong>artikel</strong>s). Uit <strong>die</strong><br />
ontled<strong>in</strong>g van <strong>hier</strong><strong>die</strong> 326 <strong>artikel</strong>s deur Voyeur, wat 2 625 634 woorde bevat (en 6 061<br />
bladsye beslaan), sien ’n mens wat <strong>die</strong> Afrikaanse woorde met <strong>die</strong> grootste<br />
gebruiksfrekwensie is:<br />
Tabel 1. Woordfrekwensies<br />
N<strong>om</strong>mer Woord Aantal kere gebruik<br />
1 <strong>die</strong> 164 379<br />
2 van 85 417<br />
3 en 64 556<br />
4 <strong>in</strong> 58 334<br />
5 ’n 48 988<br />
Hier<strong>die</strong> <strong>in</strong>ligt<strong>in</strong>g dra egter nie veel by tot ’n beter begrip van <strong>die</strong> Afrikaanse literêre sisteem<br />
nie, en gevolglik is <strong>hier</strong>na eerder spesifieke woorde nageslaan. ’n Groter korpus 8 bestaande<br />
uit wat digitaal beskikbaar is 9 van Literator (507 <strong>artikel</strong>s), Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe<br />
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