RNC News

Graphs are one of the most sought-after tools for analyzing search results in a corpus. It is important that the conclusions you draw from the graphs take into account the relevant information. For this purpose, we have updated the graphs with several auxiliary tools.

Using the "windows" displaying dates and frequencies in the graphs, you can zoom in or out on certain parts of the graph, and move around values on the axes. This is useful when you want to look at a narrower time or frequency range within a larger amount of data.

In the Main, Media, and Educational corpora, below the graphs there are "warming stripes" showing the number of texts in which examples are found. The intensity of the color of the scale draws users' attention to the fact that a change in the shape of the graph does not necessarily mean a change in the number of uses of the word, but that it may be due to a small number of texts found. In such cases, you may plot a graph without smoothing to verify your findings.

A graph can now be downloaded as a high resolution picture.