I’ve been using various tools (Voyant, RAW, VOSviewer, Excel) to visualize trends and relationships in the database of notecards I created while working on my first book. Bring your own research notes, however you maintain them, and let’s see what kinds of visualizations we can make from them. I’ve been surprised how much I’ve learned about stuff I thought I already knew inside out.
Here are some of the revealing visualizations I’ve come up with from my notes: