Flourish is an interesting and helpful website to analyze the word data. It can find the clue from the data to help people which part connects to which part.
Let’s see two examples from the image.
We can gather information though this image by seeing the connection to the different people and the dot color represent the different type of content. We can see the connection to the author is relatively less if we compare another author.
We can compare the two authors by seeing the difference in the amount of connection. Du Bois. W. E. B. obviously has more connections to other content and authors. We might say he has more ‘weight’ in history and other content.