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== What Do They Show? ==

== What Do They Show? ==

Well, you could just treat them like tag clouds, showing the top 200 word features used on the list for a given week/month, but the maps also hold spacial information. Word features that appear close together on the map were used closely (on average) in text content from the list. A height metaphor is also used to indicate the features with the strongest mean associations - the map auto centres on the highest pink peak features, these words have the strongest associations with all the rest of the features on the map; word features in the blue and green areas have weaker mean associations relative to the pink highs, but should not be considered negatively as they are still in the top ~200 terms, and will often be tightly associated with surrounding neighbours.

Well, you could just treat them as tag clouds, showing the top two hundred word features used on the mail-list for a given week/month, but the maps also hold spacial information for providing context. Word features that appear close together on the map were used closely (on average) in email content from the mail-list. A height metaphor is used to indicate feature association strength; word features in the blue and green areas have weaker mean associations relative to the hot orange and pink highs, but should not be considered negatively as they are still in the top ~200 terms, and will often be tightly associated with surrounding neighbours.

== SOM Related Research Papers ==

== SOM Related Research Papers ==