Martin Ignacio Bereciartua: Letter-pair analysis

Argentinian designer Martin Ignacio Bereciartua has created an interesting visualization showing letter-pair combinations in a given text. Created in Processing, the application reads in a text in any language and keeps track of the number of occurences of letter pairs. These are then shown as bubbles with sizes determined by frequency of appearance in the text, self-organizing so that they fill the space optimally.

The result is an elegant and good-looking visualization of common letter-pairs in a given language. Examples for several languages are shown. For a treatment that looks at letter-quadruples (also known as four-letter words), see Toxi’s classic Base26.

Via infosthetics.