How to Do Words with Data

Categories: Composition, Information

I’ve used Claude to help me put together a visualization of my recent linking and citing practices. In the accompanying diagram, each column keeps its own time scale. The diagram offers no comment on the arguments themselves: those are in the center column, to be read beyond the diagram. Pop out the full figure for individual post citations.

What the September posts link to, by ageThree timelines: the weblog archive by year, the September 2026 posts by date, and works by others on a log scale of years before now, split between rhetoric and composition and other fields, with a line for each link from a September post.200420082012201620202024Sep 15Sep 22Sep 291 wk1 mo1 yr10 yr100 yr1,000 yrInternalcitationsby yearRecent posts(September 2026)by dayExternalcitationslog scale, years before nowlink in Referenceslink in textcited worklinked pageweblog entrydocument or course materialrhetoric and compositionother fields
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