We present an overview of the last ten years of research on visualizations that support close and distant reading of textual data in the digital humanities. We look at various works published within both the visualization and digital humanities communities. We provide a taxonomy of applied methods for close and distant reading, and illustrate approaches that combine both reading techniques to p...

Close reading is an important research method to analyze and interpret text in traditional humanities research. In the last decades, a huge amount of historical texts have been made available due to large scale digitization projects and facilitated distant reading methods. In the last decade, a number of visualization techniques were developed that support distant reading tasks as they aid to e...

We present various visualizations for the Text Re-use found among texts of a collection to support answering a broad palette of research questions in the humanities. When juxtaposing all texts of a corpus in form of tuples, we propose the Text Re-use Grid as a distant reading method that emphasizes text tuples with systematic or repetitive Text Re-use. The Text Re-use Browser provides a closer ...