I used this week mainly for researching. I finished the book «The Visual Display of Quantitive Information» by Edward R. Tufte, which provided a profound insight into basic principles of visualizing and how a good visualization can be distinguished from a bad one. Many examples illustrate these theories. Based on that knowledge, I started «Semiology of Graphics» by Jaques Bertin. It deals with the semiotic meaning of different forms of visualizations and what subtle message is going to be delivered when using these visualizations. These two essential readings provide the main knowledge for me to analyze the examples of the related work I am going to introduce in my theoretical part A of the thesis.

In the middle of the week, I started with researching related work and explicitly reviewing visualizations in order to analyze them. One example for that is the controversial discussed stream graph visualization «Ebb and Flow At the Box Office» by Amanda Cox and Lee Byron. This graph turned out to be unuseable for the purpose of visualizing my data set as it is not precise enough and is not able to visualize time-based events with the efficiency needed in the context of linguistic research.