Contents
  1. Options
  2. Spyral
  3. Additional Information
  4. See Also

Mandala

Mandala is a conceptual visualization that shows the relationships between terms and documents. Each search term (or magnet) pulls documents toward it based on the term's relative frequency in the corpus.

Use it with a Jane Austen corpus or with your own corpus.

Hover over a magnet to highlight that search term and documents that contain the search term. Likewise, hover over documents to see which search terms can be found in that document.

You can click on a magnet to edit its search term. Full search functionality is available, though multiple terms for one magnet are combined into one boolean (a document must contain at least one of the terms).

Mandala with the Works of Jane Austen. You can also use Mandala with your own corpus.

Options

You can add additional magnets (or search terms), as well as clear all existing magnets.

You can determine whether or not labels should be shown for magnets (terms) and documents (when not hovering over a magnet or document).

Clicking on the optionsicon allows you to define a set of stopwords to exclude – see the Stopwords guide for more information.

Spyral

To use Mandala widget in Spyral you can use the following code as a starting point. Modify the config object to modify the visualization.

let config = {
    "labels": true,
    "query": null,
    "stopList": "auto",
}; 

loadCorpus("austen").tool("Mandala", config);

Please see Tools.Mandala for more information about configuration.

Additional Information

The Mandala is an adaptation for Voyant Tools of the Mandala Browser, a project by Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker Sandra Gabriele and Teresa Dobson, based on a concept by Oksana Cheypesh.

See Also