Inspectors : Concordance

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Concordance

The Concordance pane, opened in the Tools > Inspectors menu, gives you a tool for analyzing the textual contents of documents. When the inspector is open, selecting different items will show varying results. If one or more documents is selected, the results will be inclusive of the text in all of them. If there is no selection, the results will be based on the text of documents in the current location, whether a group or a database. This also applies to selecting items matched in smart groups, both local and global.

These results are presented in two views: List and Cloud.

List

The List view displays the concordance results in a list, separated by these parameters:

Word frequency
Number of groups with items containing a specific word
Word length
Word weight (relevance, depends on the contents of the database)
Alphabetical listing

Click the column headers to sort on a given parameter. Select a word in the list to highlight all occurrences in the current document. Double-click a word to open a database-wide search for the term.

Context Menu: The following commands are available in the context menu of the List view:

Copy: Copies the values for the selected word to the clipboard.
Add to Tags: Adds the selected word(s) as a tag to the selected items.
Select/Deselect All: Quickly select or deselect the items in the list.
Exclude/Include Word: Use this to define stop-words or to include them again.
Show/Hide Excluded Words: Select this to show or hide any excluded terms. Excluded terms will shown with a strikethrough.

Cloud

The Cloud view present the concordance as a word cloud. The size of the terms is relative to the frequency in the selection or database. Selecting terms highlights the occurrences in the current document.

Context Menu: The commands found in the List view are also found in the Cloud view, with two additions:

Export: When used with the word list in the Cloud inspector, exports a PDF of the word list.
Sort: Sort the word cloud by Name or by Count.

Related Words

Of special note is the Related Words graph shown under the List and Cloud views. Select a word in the list or cloud and it becomes the central term in a graph of related words. These are words found throughout your database. Double-clicking a node initiates a database-wide search. The context menu provides options for copying the word's information, as well as excluding the word. Additionally, use the Export command to create a PDF of the graph.

Context Menu: The context menu of this section contains a few of the same commands: Copy, Add to Tags, Exclude/Include Word, and Export. The last command exports a PDF of the graph as shown.