ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how popular open-source scientific visualization tools, which are routinely used in analysing the output of large-scale numerical computations, can be employed to present humanities and social science data. For interactive visualization, an open-source, multi-platform package designed for 3D visualization of extremely large datasets. ParaView can run in parallel on high-performance computing clusters, but for our purpose we will run it as a standalone GUI application on our laptop or desktop computer. Using a similar technique, we developed a collection of Python 3.x scripts for constructing and visualizing a 3D semantic map. There is an ever growing set of open-source tools designed with such applications in mind; later we briefly list the most accessible ones. Rotating this scatter plot in 3D, one can easily confirm that the four authors use substantially different vocabularies, and there is an expected overlap between H. G. Wells’s two novels.
