Word Plot accompanying Figure 4 Text Plot in
“Identifying another Goldfields Reporter: Frederick Dalton 1850-1880”
Dalton, De Boos, Hux and North, South, West series: word plot for 100 function words
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Principal Components Analysis allows the researcher to produce two plots, (a text plot and a word
plot) each of which can be read in conjunction with the other. The texts in Figure 4 of the article
derive their location from the relatively high or relatively low usage of the words on the two
intersecting Principal Components.