Indexing the index

research, development

A python generator that produces speculative indexes, using NLP to map textual data spatially. I was interested in working with the genre of the index as an infrastructure for containing information and a mapping mechanism.

My corpus was the indexes of these books:

and a few miscellaneous phrases from my notebook.

generator output
generator output

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outline of methodology

text sequences and corresponding vectors
text sequences (subentries) and their corresponding vectors

t-SNE visualization of text sequences and vectors
text sequences (subentries) and their corresponding vectors visualized by t-SNE

generator output
generator output

generator output
generator output

generator output
overlaid generator outputs
credits & references

Allison Parrish - Reading and Writing Electronic Text, Tracery