Introduction

Technology has allowed us to digitize text, and this has led to the development of tools to analyze and visualize information stored in text. One of the questions that comes to our mind is how do we utilize the information stored in text. The following are some of the applications and examples of visualization:

• Visualizing text provides us with information, trends, and changing patterns in literature

• Visualizing Twitter feeds can help us in revealing behavioral and social patterns

• Visualizing books reveals the writing styles of different authors

• Visualizing political speeches helps us to understand the political view, opinions, and differences among various politicians

In this chapter, we will study a few different ways to visualize text, such as a wordcloud, phrase trees and correlation plots. We will also implement customized fonts in our plots and images, making our visualization not only more appealing, but also humorous.

I would refrain from using XKCD-style fonts, which we will...