There is so much information in text that it is sometimes difficult to choose what to read.
Text mining is a great way of extracting the main ideas from a body of text, but I think that it has to be allied with good visualisation, to capture and make it easy for anyone to understand the main ideas of a body of text.
The US Senate released a report on torture a few months ago, and I tried to gather the main conclusions and express them visually.
The summary is as follows, the starfish of torture:
I have created a deck of slides that illustrates the power of visualisation in bringing text mining to life and capturing ideas.
