technancy / annograph-meteor

Annotate text and quantify with a graph or mapped overlay of subjective values.

#AnnoGraph

##"A highlighter you can make graphs with."

A text annotator for quantifying subjective values within texts.

Key values within a text can be mapped by assigning one against each sentence or selected words.

Each key value is selected from a pool of set criteria.

A tally is kept of how many pieces of text were assigned to each key value.

A highlight is left behind with a corresponding key value colour, to get an overall sense of how the text evolves between each key value.

================ Installation: Setup requires node, npm, and meteor.

git clone https://github.com/technancy/annograph-meteor.git

sudo npm install meteor

Run:

meteor

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##Extension: The tally of the results can then be displayed as a graph.

But this tool would become even more useful if you could compare 1 text against another.

Opinion vs Opinion

Or keep a tally across a series of texts.

Dream + Dream + Dream + Dream + Dream

============== For example:

Set criteria: Hot, Toasty, Cold

George went on holiday to Dubai in July. [ Hot ] He decided to sit in a bath of ice the whole time. [ Cold ] When he got home it was snowing. [ Cold ] But luckily he was wearing 10 woolen onesies. [ Toasty ] His housemate Gregory had cooked him a welcome home meal with 10 ghost peppers. [ Hot ]

[ Hot ] ##
[ Toasty ] #
[ Cold ] #


=============== Extension example:

Set criteria: Economy, Equality, Independence

Opinion A:
The unconditional income in Switzerland means that a third of the GDP would be distributed unconditionally. [ Equality ] But I don’t count that as government expenditure because it is immediately distributed to the people who live in this society. [ Economy ] It means less government power because each individual can decide how to spend the money. [ Independance ]

Opinion B:
Under unconditional income landlords could raise rent levels to double. [ Economy - ] [ Equality - ] Some bureaucracy would be eliminated but there would need to be measures put in place to limit rent prices. [ Independence - ] Pilot study results need to be looked at carefully. There is a risk that although people would feel more independence they may have less incentive to do any work at all, and so the Swiss economy would suffer in the long term. [ Economy - ]

------ A ----------------- B ------
# [ Economy ]----------[ Economy ] - ##
# [ Equality ]--------[ Equality ] - #


[ Independence ][ Independence ] -

================ User Interface Suggestions:

Ideally there would be 2 selection modes. Freestyle and Sentence.

Freestyle mode would let the user highlight by click-dragging the cursor, and show the tooltip (Labeller) on mouseup. [currently implemented in non-TDD / non-BDD prototype]

Sentence mode would highlight a sentence on rollover and show the tooltip (Labeller) on click.