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• Spend some time exploring the notes about the underlying data.  What kind of text data is this? 
  
  • Is the text clean? Indexed? Filtered? Anything else interesting you note about the data?
• Do you feel you can Explore the functions of the tool.  Attempt to make claims about the intellectual content of the text based on the visualization?  To what extent? tool and its visualizations. (Feel free to reach a little.)
  
  • Try constraining the various tools to specific terms or phrases.  Do any words trend together? InverselyHow comprehensive are these terms?  Can you make them more comprehensive by making them case insensitive?  What happens to your results?
  • Can you isolate phrases of interest?Do any of the the visualizations help illustrate what you notice/assert regarding the text? Are some misleading? Confusing?restrict the case of some phrases and make others case insensitive? How?
  • Can you segment by language to indicate data from Great Britain as distinct from US English?  What does it mean to find these terms in Spanish?
  • Can you add related terms?  Do these terms show interesting trending, either coincident or inverse? 
  • Add the coalesced term "(male+(chauvinism+chauvinist))".  Note the way the frequency of this form obliterates the other waveforms.  What can you do to temper this action? 
  • What sorts of supplemental data would be helpful in making sense of the these visualizations?  
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• Consider the functions value of the tool and consider them critically.
  • How comprehensive are these terms?  Can you make them more comprehensive?
  • What can you manage to do?  What is this tool good for?
  • What sorts of things did you want to do, but could not?
  • What can you infer from the interface about the text? What is still opaque?Can you add related terms?  Do these terms show interesting trending? 

After your exploration, be prepared to report your findings to the other team(s) and take their questions.

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